- Bioenergy
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Bioenergy
- Operating
Covington Facility: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Covington Facility
Power plant · Biomass
Key facts
Power plant · Biomassran 51% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1951
- Net generation, 2025
- 725,118 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to Virginia Electric & Power Co (PJM)
- Location
- Alleghany County, Virginia
- Operated by
- Westrock COSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 725,118
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 27,553,249
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 51.4
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 529,202 | 19,488,064 | — | — |
| 2025 | 725,118 | 27,553,249 | 51.4% | — |
| 2024 | 741,222 | 28,178,841 | 52.4% | — |
| 2023 | 663,062 | 28,140,183 | 47.0% | — |
| 2022 | 790,009 | 31,536,163 | 56.0% | — |
| 2021 | 875,859 | 33,059,554 | 62.1% | — |
| 2020 | 833,290 | 31,726,585 | 59.0% | — |
| 2019 | 904,766 | 32,567,272 | 64.2% | — |
| 2018 | 1,006,484 | 34,326,077 | 71.4% | — |
| 2017 | 928,862 | 33,817,569 | 65.9% | — |
| 2016 | 961,469 | 33,132,926 | 68.0% | — |
| 2015 | 1,010,363 | 36,580,483 | 71.7% | — |
| 2014 | 893,091 | 34,242,266 | 63.4% | — |
| 2013 | 654,034 | 30,933,024 | 46.4% | — |
| 2012 | 674,838 | 30,194,027 | 47.8% | — |
| 2011 | 652,676 | 31,237,630 | 46.3% | — |
| 2010 | 612,983 | 30,943,682 | 43.5% | — |
| 2009 | 631,399 | 32,282,291 | 44.8% | — |
| 2008 | 672,198 | 32,242,711 | 47.6% | — |
| 2007 | 604,383 | 34,278,103 | 42.9% | — |
| 2006 | 603,778 | 33,207,391 | 42.8% | — |
| 2005 (10 of 12 months) | 487,925 | 27,303,076 | — | — |
| 2004 | 620,408 | 33,567,063 | 43.9% | — |
| 2003 (10 of 12 months) | 568,429 | 27,971,216 | — | — |
| 2002 | 610,852 | 6,557,790 | 43.3% | 10,736 |
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)