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- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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Cardinal
Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coalran 66% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1967
- Net generation, 2025
- 10,816,272 MWh
- Grid
- 345 kV, 138 kV to Ohio Power Co (PJM)
- Location
- Jefferson County, Ohio
- Operated by
- Cardinal Operating Company
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 10,816,272
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 108,926,531
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 65.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 10,071
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 6,015,052 | 61,134,108 | — | 10,164 |
| 2025 | 10,816,272 | 108,926,531 | 65.7% | 10,071 |
| 2024 | 9,497,125 | 96,288,518 | 57.5% | 10,139 |
| 2023 | 9,679,859 | 96,325,128 | 58.8% | 9,951 |
| 2022 | 10,755,882 | 105,310,399 | 65.3% | 9,791 |
| 2021 | 10,066,943 | 99,021,303 | 61.1% | 9,836 |
| 2020 | 9,059,773 | 90,610,939 | 54.9% | 10,002 |
| 2019 | 9,640,233 | 95,588,270 | 58.5% | 9,916 |
| 2018 | 10,038,335 | 100,565,679 | 60.9% | 10,018 |
| 2017 | 10,498,733 | 105,042,526 | 63.7% | 10,005 |
| 2016 | 9,180,921 | 91,224,317 | 55.6% | 9,936 |
| 2015 | 8,835,500 | 87,412,305 | 53.6% | 9,893 |
| 2014 | 10,700,749 | 106,656,318 | 65.0% | 9,967 |
| 2013 | 11,004,382 | 110,799,060 | 66.8% | 10,069 |
| 2012 | 7,372,305 | 73,673,164 | 44.6% | 9,993 |
| 2011 | 8,059,448 | 81,299,756 | 48.9% | 10,088 |
| 2010 | 10,057,631 | 99,695,752 | 61.1% | 9,912 |
| 2009 | 10,784,462 | 106,765,805 | 65.5% | 9,900 |
| 2008 | 10,386,166 | 101,592,460 | 62.9% | 9,782 |
| 2007 | 10,709,666 | 107,320,843 | 65.0% | 10,021 |
| 2006 | 11,490,833 | 111,246,634 | 69.8% | 9,681 |
| 2005 | 11,372,176 | 111,222,129 | 69.0% | 9,780 |
| 2004 | 10,794,107 | 104,838,225 | 65.3% | 9,712 |
| 2003 | 10,556,646 | 103,240,314 | 64.1% | 9,780 |
| 2002 | 8,555,500 | 83,201,554 | 51.9% | 9,725 |
| 2001 | 9,708,439 | 97,238,725 | 58.9% | 10,016 |
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 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)