- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- Retired
Buzzard Point: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Buzzard Point
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oilran 0% of 2011 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1968
- Net generation, 2011
- 4,509 MWh
- Location
- District of Columbia County, the District of Columbia
- Operated by
- Potomac Power ResourcesSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2011
- 4,509
MWh - Fuel burned, 2011
- 92,921
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2011
- 0.2
% - Heat rate, 2011
- 20,608
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 (5 of 12 months) | 6,754 | 118,082 | — | 17,483 |
| 2011 | 4,509 | 92,921 | 0.2% | 20,608 |
| 2010 | 3,331 | 68,734 | 0.1% | 20,635 |
| 2009 | 10,789 | 197,092 | 0.4% | 18,268 |
| 2008 | 10,107 | 198,872 | 0.4% | 19,677 |
| 2007 | 15,696 | 334,178 | 0.6% | 21,291 |
| 2006 | 29,191 | 670,219 | 1.2% | 22,960 |
| 2005 | 59,813 | 1,087,579 | 2.4% | 18,183 |
| 2004 | 16,448 | 307,209 | 0.7% | 18,678 |
| 2003 | 20,272 | 375,778 | 0.8% | 18,537 |
| 2002 | 43,856 | 781,193 | 1.7% | 17,813 |
| 2001 | 13,556 | 251,071 | 0.5% | 18,521 |
How these are worked out
Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.
Sources
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)