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Cope — Power plant · Gas, steam turbine · Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc
  • Combustion
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Cope

Power plant · Gas, steam turbine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, steam turbineran 48% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1996
Net generation, 2025
1,740,565 MWh
Grid
230 kV to Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc (SCEG)
Location
Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Net generation, 2025
1,740,565MWh
Fuel burned, 2025
17,912,379MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025
47.6%
Heat rate, 2025
10,291Btu/kWh
Capacity factor % of full output, by year
Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
2026 (8 of 12 months)975,11610,032,124—10,288
20251,740,56517,912,37947.6%10,291
20241,666,13417,095,16045.5%10,260
20231,375,97114,130,53337.6%10,270
20221,722,57517,643,64147.1%10,243
20211,594,79516,091,29543.6%10,090
2020965,4109,763,22626.3%10,113
20191,851,60918,629,50650.6%10,061
20181,719,12016,644,51747.0%9,682
20172,384,56722,690,60365.2%9,516
20161,974,56418,808,66753.9%9,526
20152,199,70320,660,21360.2%9,392
20142,973,34528,108,94281.3%9,454
20132,445,71522,482,12066.9%9,192
20121,988,81318,728,83354.3%9,417
20112,459,90923,145,77367.3%9,409
20102,738,24625,923,99474.9%9,467
20092,557,15923,977,72470.0%9,377
20082,619,89424,943,22571.5%9,521
20073,310,27430,345,43090.5%9,167
20063,426,83731,757,82593.7%9,267
20052,990,50627,554,09081.8%9,214
20043,339,27231,188,37291.1%9,340
20032,818,39425,900,14277.1%9,190
20023,243,77026,367,72388.7%8,129
20012,502,96522,962,42968.5%9,174
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 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global 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.
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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