- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
- Retired
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Chicago
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 18% of 2005 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1990
- Net generation, 2005
- 4,083 MWh
- Location
- Cook County, Illinois
- Operated by
- International Malting Co.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2005
- 4,083
MWh - Fuel burned, 2005
- 21,021
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2005
- 17.9
% - Heat rate, 2005
- 5,148
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 4,083 | 21,021 | 17.9% | 5,148 |
| 2003 | 5,130 | 27,130 | 22.5% | 5,288 |
| 2002 | 5,824 | 30,300 | 25.6% | 5,203 |
| 2001 | 5,756 | 32,596 | 25.3% | 5,663 |
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.