Carson Cogeneration

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Power plant · Gas, combined cycle Operating

Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open 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

Net generation, 2025: 2,562MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 25,963MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 0.5%
Heat rate, 2025: 10,134Btu/kWh

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.
Year	Net generation (MWh)	Fuel burned (MMBtu)	Capacity factor	Heat rate (Btu/kWh)
2025	2,562	25,963	0.5%	10,134
2024	18,898	170,090	3.9%	9,000
2023	34,839	316,596	7.1%	9,087
2022	27,234	260,241	5.6%	9,556
2021	15,775	153,983	3.2%	9,761
2020	20,377	199,770	4.2%	9,804
2019	24,729	277,596	5.1%	11,226
2018	0	0	—	—
2017	4,841	46,052	1.0%	9,513
2016	37,159	405,842	7.6%	10,922
2015	33,199	353,867	6.8%	10,659
2014	35,961	345,389	7.4%	9,604
2013	280,088	2,443,571	57.3%	8,724
2012	410,816	3,654,306	83.8%	8,895
2011	403,356	3,559,569	82.5%	8,825
2010	347,549	3,050,404	71.1%	8,777
2009	381,463	3,283,480	78.0%	8,608
2008	338,708	2,898,347	69.1%	8,557
2007	411,544	3,582,602	84.2%	8,705
2006	394,703	3,396,878	80.8%	8,606
2005	418,263	3,606,375	85.6%	8,622
2004	394,364	3,375,518	80.5%	8,559
2003	285,799	2,519,044	58.5%	8,814
2002	354,259	3,188,678	72.5%	9,001
2001	223,443	2,015,227	45.7%	9,019

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.

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Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

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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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