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Carson Cogeneration
Power plant · Gas, combined cycle
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combined cycleran 1% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1989
- Net generation, 2025
- 2,562 MWh
- Grid
- 14 kV to Southern California Edison Co (CISO)
- Location
- Los Angeles County, California
- Operated by
- Carson Cogeneration Co
Output
- Gas
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- Technology
- Gas, combined cycle source: “Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle”
- Age
- 37 years since 1989
- Unused energy
- 486 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
- Heat rate
- 10,134 Btu/kWh 2025
All 8 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
|
| Grid |
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| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 25,963 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.005 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 10,133.9 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 2,562 |
| Balancing authority code | CISO |
Ownership
4 companies4| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carson Cogeneration Co | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| Enery Holdings LLC | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| CMD Carson GP LLC | Owner | 2.0% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
| CMD Carson LLC | Owner | 98.0% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
6 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT) · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Sources
- 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)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Around this plant
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|---|---|---|---|
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| Torrance Dis Ctr 2 - SLLAX100 Under construction | Solar | 4.4 mi | 1.4 |
| Elevate Pier S Filed | Storage | 7.8 mi | 70 |
| PRIME DATA CENTER VERNON Built | Large load | 8.7 mi | |
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| San Pedro Public Market (SPPM) Under construction | Solar | 10.1 mi | 1.2 |
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Sources EIA-860M · CAISO · EPA ICIS-NPDES