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Central Generating — Power plant · Biomass · North American Central - LLC
  • Bioenergy
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

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

Operations

Net generation, 2025
12,864MWh
Fuel burned, 2025
160,777MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025
36.7%
Heat rate, 2025
12,498Btu/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)
202512,864160,77736.7%12,498
202415,090181,62643.0%12,036
202317,730208,74850.6%11,774
202224,130229,95368.9%9,530
202019,277262,31554.9%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 sources

Sources EIA-860M · EIA

Sources

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