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Chilhowee
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 36% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1957
- Net generation, 2025
- 157,680 MWh
- Grid
- 161 kV to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- Location
- Blount County, Tennessee
- Operated by
- Brookfield Smoky Mountain Hydropower LPSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 157,680
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 538,002
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 36.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 157,680 | 538,002 | 36.1% | — |
| 2024 | 159,115 | 542,901 | 36.4% | — |
| 2023 | 146,935 | 501,343 | 33.7% | — |
| 2022 | 163,965 | 559,447 | 37.6% | — |
| 2021 | 201,683 | 1,783,684 | 46.2% | — |
| 2020 | 252,497 | 2,213,642 | 57.7% | — |
| 2019 | 219,770 | 1,957,051 | 50.4% | — |
| 2018 | 194,467 | 1,770,427 | 44.6% | — |
| 2017 | 78,469 | 722,935 | 18.0% | — |
| 2016 | 11,016 | 101,700 | 2.5% | — |
| 2015 | 97,998 | 913,242 | 22.5% | — |
| 2014 | 151,783 | 1,443,456 | 34.8% | — |
| 2013 | 240,909 | 2,298,512 | 55.2% | — |
| 2012 | 139,430 | 1,326,815 | 31.9% | — |
| 2011 | 155,119 | 1,507,136 | 35.6% | — |
| 2010 | 162,303 | 1,583,429 | 37.2% | — |
| 2009 | 194,196 | 1,895,353 | 44.5% | — |
| 2008 | 102,539 | 1,010,420 | 23.4% | — |
| 2007 | 90,031 | 889,865 | 20.6% | — |
| 2006 | 131,060 | 1,299,984 | 30.0% | — |
| 2005 | 184,408 | 1,843,896 | 42.3% | — |
| 2004 | 186,264 | 1,866,738 | 42.6% | — |
| 2003 | 209,200 | 2,142,417 | 47.9% | — |
| 2002 | 148,985 | 1,515,624 | 34.2% | — |
| 2001 | 94,452 | 975,972 | 21.6% | — |
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
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)