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- Retired
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- Clean firm
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Empire
Power plant · Geothermal
Key facts
Power plant · Geothermalran 46% of 2011 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1987
- Net generation, 2011
- 19,429 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to Sierra Pacific Power Co (NEVP)
- Location
- Washoe County, Nevada
- Operated by
- USG Nevada LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2011
- 19,429
MWh - Fuel burned, 2011
- 188,772
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2011
- 46.2
% - Heat rate, 2011
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19,429 | 188,772 | 46.2% | — |
| 2010 | 21,662 | 211,335 | 51.5% | — |
| 2009 | 16,546 | 161,489 | 39.4% | — |
| 2008 | 19,761 | 194,725 | 46.9% | — |
| 2007 | 19,824 | 195,940 | 47.1% | — |
| 2006 | 25,604 | 253,966 | 60.9% | — |
| 2005 | 23,317 | 233,147 | 55.5% | — |
| 2004 | 20,940 | 209,861 | 49.7% | — |
| 2003 | 17,191 | 176,053 | 40.9% | — |
| 2002 | 25,174 | 256,090 | 59.9% | — |
| 2001 | 30,783 | 318,081 | 73.2% | — |
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.