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Cherokee
Power plant · Gas, combined cycle
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combined cycleran 42% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1968
- Net generation, 2025
- 3,671,714 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Public Service Co of Colorado (PSCO)
- Location
- Adams County, Colorado
- Operated by
- Public Service Co of Colorado
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 3,671,714
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 28,740,949
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 41.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 7,828
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 1,874,661 | 14,875,330 | — | 7,935 |
| 2025 | 3,671,714 | 28,740,949 | 41.6% | 7,828 |
| 2024 | 3,397,493 | 26,266,023 | 38.4% | 7,731 |
| 2023 | 3,559,506 | 27,292,666 | 40.4% | 7,668 |
| 2022 | 3,221,120 | 29,364,065 | 36.5% | 9,116 |
| 2021 | 3,005,952 | 25,674,678 | 34.1% | 8,541 |
| 2020 | 3,829,224 | 31,360,279 | 43.3% | 8,190 |
| 2019 | 3,932,404 | 31,887,394 | 44.6% | 8,109 |
| 2018 | 3,841,878 | 31,465,811 | 43.6% | 8,190 |
| 2017 | 4,274,897 | 34,960,027 | 48.5% | 8,178 |
| 2016 | 4,633,893 | 40,632,416 | 52.4% | 8,768 |
| 2015 | 3,192,480 | 30,628,805 | 36.2% | 9,594 |
| 2014 | 3,075,374 | 32,055,460 | 34.9% | 10,423 |
| 2013 | 2,873,769 | 30,138,769 | 32.6% | 10,488 |
| 2012 | 3,020,306 | 32,466,732 | 34.2% | 10,750 |
| 2011 | 3,954,128 | 43,356,268 | 44.9% | 10,965 |
| 2010 | 3,671,765 | 40,631,811 | 41.6% | 11,066 |
| 2009 | 3,210,172 | 35,807,641 | 36.4% | 11,154 |
| 2008 | 4,534,806 | 48,700,814 | 51.3% | 10,739 |
| 2007 | 4,772,412 | 49,335,022 | 54.1% | 10,338 |
| 2006 | 4,782,832 | 50,718,242 | 54.2% | 10,604 |
| 2005 | 4,995,200 | 52,164,932 | 56.7% | 10,443 |
| 2004 | 4,966,908 | 49,451,720 | 56.2% | 9,956 |
| 2003 | 4,666,650 | 47,618,189 | 52.9% | 10,204 |
| 2002 | 4,335,810 | 47,946,867 | 49.2% | 11,058 |
| 2001 | 4,655,062 | 51,586,618 | 52.8% | 11,082 |
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.