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Centaur Generator Facility — Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine · Vintage Production California LLC
  • Combustion
  • Retired
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Centaur Generator Facility

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 58% of 2008 Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1988
Net generation, 2008
17,940 MWh
Location
Ventura County, California
Operated by
Vintage Production California LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Operations

Net generation, 2008
17,940MWh
Fuel burned, 2008
195,976MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2008
58.4%
Heat rate, 2008
10,924Btu/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.
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
200817,940195,97658.4%10,924
200729,498326,19096.2%11,058
200627,861308,12190.9%11,059
200527,280291,02989.0%10,668
200429,516325,20696.0%11,018
200329,734326,92497.0%10,995
20025,2063,20217.0%—
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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