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Cooper
Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coalran 17% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1965
- Net generation, 2025
- 516,184 MWh
- Grid
- 161 kV, 69 kV to East Kentucky Power Coop, Inc (PJM)
- Location
- Pulaski County, Kentucky
- Operated by
- East Kentucky Power Coop, IncSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 516,184
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 5,638,936
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 17.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 10,924
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 567,860 | 6,215,262 | — | 10,945 |
| 2025 | 516,184 | 5,638,936 | 17.1% | 10,924 |
| 2024 | 441,141 | 4,830,872 | 14.6% | 10,951 |
| 2023 | 477,471 | 5,075,343 | 15.8% | 10,630 |
| 2022 | 549,282 | 6,018,564 | 18.2% | 10,957 |
| 2021 | 478,612 | 5,303,178 | 15.9% | 11,080 |
| 2020 | 142,507 | 1,736,243 | 4.7% | 12,184 |
| 2019 | 168,610 | 2,020,419 | 5.6% | 11,983 |
| 2018 | 562,090 | 6,045,686 | 18.6% | 10,756 |
| 2017 | 446,758 | 4,831,028 | 14.8% | 10,814 |
| 2016 | 644,656 | 6,833,367 | 21.3% | 10,600 |
| 2015 (10 of 12 months) | 524,509 | 5,647,537 | — | 10,767 |
| 2014 | 1,029,440 | 11,077,196 | 34.2% | 10,760 |
| 2013 | 997,375 | 10,903,069 | 33.1% | 10,932 |
| 2012 | 1,462,885 | 15,648,374 | 48.4% | 10,697 |
| 2011 | 1,696,770 | 17,909,087 | 56.3% | 10,555 |
| 2010 | 1,835,274 | 20,279,656 | 60.9% | 11,050 |
| 2009 | 1,584,812 | 16,800,596 | 52.6% | 10,601 |
| 2008 | 2,084,207 | 21,562,269 | 69.0% | 10,346 |
| 2007 | 1,957,042 | 20,309,484 | 64.9% | 10,378 |
| 2006 | 1,972,455 | 20,314,408 | 65.5% | 10,299 |
| 2005 | 2,003,931 | 20,317,198 | 66.5% | 10,139 |
| 2004 | 2,275,198 | 23,012,322 | 75.3% | 10,114 |
| 2003 | 1,867,679 | 18,843,328 | 62.0% | 10,089 |
| 2002 | 2,100,208 | 21,448,381 | 69.7% | 10,212 |
| 2001 | 2,137,247 | 21,796,580 | 70.9% | 10,198 |
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)