- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- Retired
Centaur Generator Facility: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
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
- 17,940
MWh - Fuel burned, 2008
- 195,976
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2008
- 58.4
% - Heat rate, 2008
- 10,924
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 17,940 | 195,976 | 58.4% | 10,924 |
| 2007 | 29,498 | 326,190 | 96.2% | 11,058 |
| 2006 | 27,861 | 308,121 | 90.9% | 11,059 |
| 2005 | 27,280 | 291,029 | 89.0% | 10,668 |
| 2004 | 29,516 | 325,206 | 96.0% | 11,018 |
| 2003 | 29,734 | 326,924 | 97.0% | 10,995 |
| 2002 | 5,206 | 3,202 | 17.0% | — |
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.