- Bioenergy
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- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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Central Generating
Power plant · Biomass
Key facts
Power plant · Biomassran 37% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2018
- Net generation, 2025
- 12,864 MWh
- Grid
- 416 kV to Consumers Energy Co (MISO)
- Location
- Montcalm County, Michigan
- Operated by
- North American Central - LLC
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 12,864
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 160,777
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 36.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 12,498
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12,864 | 160,777 | 36.7% | 12,498 |
| 2024 | 15,090 | 181,626 | 43.0% | 12,036 |
| 2023 | 17,730 | 208,748 | 50.6% | 11,774 |
| 2022 | 24,130 | 229,953 | 68.9% | 9,530 |
| 2020 | 19,277 | 262,315 | 54.9% | 13,608 |
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 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)