Diamond Walnut
Power plant · Biomass
Key facts
Power plant · Biomassran 44% of 2005 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1981
- Net generation, 2005
- 17,399 MWh
- Location
- San Joaquin County, California
- Operated by
- Diamond Walnut Growers IncSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2005
- 17,399
MWh - Fuel burned, 2005
- 381,344
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2005
- 44.1
% - Heat rate, 2005
- 21,918
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 17,399 | 381,344 | 44.1% | 21,918 |
| 2004 | 19,954 | 463,000 | 50.5% | 23,204 |
| 2003 | 20,914 | 493,698 | 53.0% | 23,606 |
| 2002 | 42,000 | 587,399 | — | 13,986 |
| 2001 | 23,843 | 369,441 | 60.5% | 15,495 |
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.