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Power plant · Oil

Key facts

Power plant · Oil Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1949
Net generation, 2025
0 MWh
Grid
40 kV to Thumb Electric Coop of Mich (MISO)
Location
Tuscola County, Michigan
Operated by
Thumb Electric Coop of MichSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Operations

Net generation, 2025
0MWh
Fuel burned, 2025
0MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025
Not stated
Heat rate, 2025
Not stated
Capacity factor % of full output, by year
Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year
Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
202500——
202400——
20236780.0%13,265
202200——
202100——
202000——
20198830.0%10,587
20186950.0%16,156
201700——
20167950.0%13,848
201501,178——
201400——
201376440.0%—
201200——
201100——
201061420.0%23,667
200951140.0%23,265
200800——
2007-2550——
20061540.0%—
20055580.0%11,602
20043650.0%21,667
20031120.0%12,000
2002101330.0%13,297
2001571,0210.1%17,912
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 sources

Sources EIA-860M · EIA

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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