- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- Retired
Cardinal Cogen: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Cardinal Cogen
Power plant · Gas, combined cycle
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combined cycleran 85% of 2014 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1987
- Net generation, 2014
- 394,299 MWh
- Location
- Santa Clara County, California
- Operated by
- Cardinal Cogen Inc
Operations
- Net generation, 2014
- 394,299
MWh - Fuel burned, 2014
- 4,138,537
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2014
- 85.2
% - Heat rate, 2014
- 10,496
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 (3 of 12 months) | 90,622 | 974,763 | — | 10,756 |
| 2014 | 394,299 | 4,138,537 | 85.2% | 10,496 |
| 2013 | 362,292 | 3,839,037 | 78.3% | 10,596 |
| 2012 | 345,707 | 3,793,781 | 74.5% | 10,974 |
| 2011 | 412,539 | 4,459,354 | 89.2% | 10,810 |
| 2010 | 416,565 | 4,509,363 | 90.1% | 10,825 |
| 2009 | 404,008 | 4,350,294 | 87.4% | 10,768 |
| 2008 | 400,904 | 4,361,334 | 86.4% | 10,879 |
| 2007 | 410,277 | 4,581,949 | 88.7% | 11,168 |
| 2006 | 362,237 | 4,152,029 | 78.3% | 11,462 |
| 2005 | 372,003 | 4,215,446 | 80.4% | 11,332 |
| 2004 | 374,142 | 4,280,927 | 80.7% | 11,442 |
| 2003 | 383,964 | 4,287,820 | 83.0% | 11,167 |
| 2002 | 366,197 | 4,856,193 | 79.2% | 13,261 |
| 2001 | 311,122 | 3,963,802 | 67.3% | 12,740 |
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.