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Carbon — Power plant · Coal · PacifiCorp
  • Combustion
  • Retired
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Carbon

Power plant · Coal

Key facts

Power plant · Coalran 24% of 2015 Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1954
Net generation, 2015
393,866 MWh
Grid
138 kV to PacifiCorp (PACE)
Location
Carbon County, Utah
Operated by
PacifiCorp
Net generation, 2015
393,866MWh
Fuel burned, 2015
4,536,464MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2015
23.8%
Heat rate, 2015
11,518Btu/kWh
Capacity factor % of full output, by year
Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
2015393,8664,536,46423.8%11,518
20141,283,64514,541,29277.7%11,328
20131,197,76513,377,47472.5%11,169
20121,287,24014,520,86377.7%11,281
20111,332,21814,755,56180.6%11,076
20101,296,00414,256,05978.4%11,000
20091,212,16313,583,39573.4%11,206
20081,205,08213,974,23472.7%11,596
20071,339,34315,413,32581.1%11,508
20061,312,55314,823,15379.5%11,293
20051,349,85815,483,60781.7%11,470
20041,135,08313,186,18568.5%11,617
20031,371,29315,622,68083.0%11,393
20021,323,39515,157,78280.1%11,454
20011,372,71515,408,84483.1%11,225
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

3 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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