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Copper — Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine · El Paso Electric Co
  • Combustion
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Copper

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 4% of 2025 Retiring
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1980
Net generation, 2025
27,840 MWh
Grid
115 kV to El Paso Electric Co (EPE)
Location
El Paso County, Texas
Operated by
El Paso Electric CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Net generation, 2025
27,840MWh
Fuel burned, 2025
486,438MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025
3.7%
Heat rate, 2025
17,473Btu/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)
202527,840486,4383.7%17,473
202449,822902,7146.5%18,119
202348,678914,4236.4%18,785
202247,291918,9536.2%19,432
202128,972571,2083.8%19,716
202033,888665,7214.4%19,645
201939,534688,5505.2%17,417
201847,287780,8956.2%16,514
201718,913357,0322.5%18,878
201633,073546,7634.3%16,532
201524,907441,2243.3%17,715
201439,856651,2135.2%16,339
201337,561631,5664.9%16,814
201237,420710,4204.9%18,985
201138,997687,8795.1%17,639
201014,522228,2611.9%15,718
200917,415225,5292.3%12,950
200818,110301,0132.4%16,621
200716,046260,4202.1%16,230
200616,420267,6362.2%16,299
200516,463267,2142.2%16,231
20046,156106,8020.8%17,349
200311,201176,6741.5%15,773
200224,609329,2813.2%13,380
2001129,1811,903,49617.0%14,735
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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