- Clean firm
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Clean firm
- Retired
Buzzard Roost: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Buzzard Roost
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 29% of 2022 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1940
- Net generation, 2022
- 37,825 MWh
- Grid
- 100 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
- Location
- Greenwood County, South Carolina
- Operated by
- South Carolina Public Service Authority
Operations
- Net generation, 2022
- 37,825
MWh - Fuel burned, 2022
- 129,059
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2022
- 28.8
% - Heat rate, 2022
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 37,825 | 129,059 | 28.8% | — |
| 2021 | 36,394 | 321,869 | 27.7% | — |
| 2020 | 29,501 | 258,634 | 22.4% | — |
| 2019 | 42,286 | 376,557 | 32.2% | — |
| 2018 | 41,815 | 380,685 | 31.8% | — |
| 2017 | 20,981 | 193,299 | 16.0% | — |
| 2016 | 25,752 | 237,743 | 19.5% | — |
| 2015 | 34,070 | 317,499 | 25.9% | — |
| 2014 | 36,404 | 346,203 | 27.7% | — |
| 2013 | 50,734 | 484,053 | 38.6% | — |
| 2012 | 19,206 | 191,024 | 14.6% | — |
| 2011 | -792 | 10,686 | — | — |
| 2010 | -1,302 | 0 | — | — |
| 2009 | -1,348 | 0 | — | — |
| 2008 | 857 | 24,717 | 0.7% | 28,841 |
| 2007 | 13 | 26,574 | 0.0% | — |
| 2006 | 10,505 | 131,578 | 8.0% | 12,525 |
| 2005 | 47,580 | 489,011 | 36.2% | — |
| 2004 | 41,265 | 427,438 | 31.3% | — |
| 2003 | 56,192 | 593,849 | 42.8% | 10,568 |
| 2002 | 25,813 | 290,782 | 19.6% | 11,265 |
| 2001 | 30,495 | 335,279 | 23.2% | 10,995 |
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.