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Chesapeake
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oilran 0% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1967
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,145 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Virginia Electric & Power Co (PJM)
- Location
- Chesapeake County, Virginia
- Operated by
- Virginia Electric & Power Co
Output
- Coal
- Oil
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- Dominion Energy Inc.
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- Technology
- Oil source: “Petroleum Liquids”
- Age
- 59 years since 1967
- Unused energy
- 446 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
- Heat rate
- 19,015 Btu/kWh 2025
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 21,772 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.003 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 19,014.8 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 1,145 |
| Balancing authority code | PJM |
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusSome generators have retired; the rest of the plant is still in service. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Capacity retired
- 761 MW
- Generators retired
- 9
- Capacity still in service
- 51.1 MW
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Petroleum Liquids | 23.8 MW | Retired | December 2011 |
| 7 | Petroleum Liquids | 23.8 MW | Retired | December 2011 |
| 8 | Petroleum Liquids | 23.8 MW | Retired | December 2011 |
| 9 | Petroleum Liquids | 23.8 MW | Retired | December 2011 |
| 3 | Conventional Steam Coal | 185.2 MW | Retired | January 2015 |
| ST1 | Conventional Steam Coal | 112.5 MW | Retired | January 2015 |
| ST2 | Conventional Steam Coal | 112.5 MW | Retired | January 2015 |
| ST4 | Conventional Steam Coal | 239.3 MW | Retired | January 2015 |
| GT2 | Petroleum Liquids | 16.3 MW | Retired | June 2019 |
By technology
| Technology | Retired | Scheduled to retire |
|---|---|---|
| Conventional Steam Coal | 649.5 MW | |
| Petroleum Liquids | 111.5 MW |
Grid
EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).- Grid voltage at the plant
- 115 kV
- Transmission or distribution system owner
- Virginia Electric & Power Co
- Balancing authority
- PJM Interconnection, LLC
- NERC region
- SERC
Transmission lines within 25 km (10)
- Chesapeake Energy Center 115 kV line
- Chesapeake Energy Center - Gosport 115 kV
- Chesapeake Energy Center 115 kV line
- Chesapeake Energy Center 115 kV line
- Chesapeake Energy Center 115 kV line
- Chesapeake Energy Center 115 kV line
- Yadkin - Chesapeake Energy Center 230 kV
- Chesapeake Energy Center 230 kV line
- Chesapeake Energy Center 230 kV line
- Elizabeth River Power Station - Greenwich 230 kV
Can the connection be reused?
A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| Dominion Energy Inc. | Owner | 100.0% | 31 Dec 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
Timeline
- Stated Unit GT2 scheduled to retire, 16.3 MW · EIA-860M
- Stated Units 3, ST1, ST2, ST4 scheduled to retire, 649.5 MW · EIA-860M
- Stated Units 10, 7, 8, 9 scheduled to retire, 95.2 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
5 sourcesSources EIA-860M · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
Sources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- LBNL — A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024 (OEDI submission 8742)Yin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
- 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)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
Around this plant
Nearby
within 25 km| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDGE CONNEX DATA CENTER Filed | Large load | 11.7 km | |
| SENTARA HEALTHCARE Built | Large load | 18.5 km |
Sources EPA ICIS-Air · Virginia DEQ
Sources
- EPA ECHO ICIS-Air national facility download (data-centre selection, placed through FRS)
- Virginia DEQ Air Sites (Daily) — sites DEQ flags as data centresSource: Virginia Department of Environmental Quality