- Combustion
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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Colbert
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 7% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1972
- Net generation, 2025
- 731,919 MWh
- Grid
- 161 kV to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- Location
- Colbert County, Alabama
- Operated by
- Tennessee Valley Authority
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 731,919
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 9,754,776
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 7.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 13,328
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 731,919 | 9,754,776 | 7.1% | 13,328 |
| 2024 | 320,618 | 9,119,152 | 3.1% | 28,442 |
| 2023 | 78,686 | 3,852,481 | 0.8% | — |
| 2022 | 15,325 | 493,276 | 0.1% | — |
| 2021 | 1,997 | 243,478 | 0.0% | — |
| 2020 | 2,952 | 55,313 | 0.0% | 18,738 |
| 2019 | 1,670 | 42,972 | 0.0% | 25,732 |
| 2018 | 68,000 | 893,601 | 0.7% | 13,141 |
| 2017 | 13,968 | 268,212 | 0.1% | 19,202 |
| 2016 | 744,333 | 8,633,729 | 7.2% | 11,599 |
| 2015 | 2,690,554 | 28,456,407 | 26.3% | 10,576 |
| 2014 | 3,594,781 | 38,551,603 | 35.1% | 10,724 |
| 2013 | 3,218,770 | 35,111,481 | 31.4% | 10,908 |
| 2012 | 3,369,461 | 36,952,841 | 32.8% | 10,967 |
| 2011 | 4,779,110 | 50,987,340 | 46.7% | 10,669 |
| 2010 | 6,038,931 | 63,634,253 | 58.9% | 10,537 |
| 2009 | 2,940,204 | 32,607,544 | 28.7% | 11,090 |
| 2008 | 7,659,916 | 78,880,641 | 74.6% | 10,298 |
| 2007 | 7,549,177 | 81,478,184 | 73.7% | 10,793 |
| 2006 | 7,676,882 | 82,263,925 | 74.9% | 10,716 |
| 2005 | 7,777,383 | 83,702,240 | 75.9% | 10,762 |
| 2004 | 6,881,515 | 74,381,194 | 67.0% | 10,809 |
| 2003 | 7,211,798 | 76,678,690 | 70.4% | 10,632 |
| 2002 | 6,305,034 | 64,829,090 | 61.5% | 10,282 |
| 2001 | 6,690,214 | 73,384,518 | 65.3% | 10,969 |
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 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global 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.
- 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)