- Combustion
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
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Forked River: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Forked River
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 2% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1989
- Net generation, 2025
- 15,720 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Jersey Central Power & Lt Co (PJM)
- Location
- Ocean County, New Jersey
- Operated by
- Forked River Power, LLC
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 15,720
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 214,651
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 2.3
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 13,655
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15,720 | 214,651 | 2.3% | 13,655 |
| 2024 | 3,832 | 74,019 | 0.6% | 19,316 |
| 2023 | 1,976 | 51,234 | 0.3% | 25,928 |
| 2022 | 7,346 | 105,274 | 1.1% | 14,331 |
| 2021 | 8,137 | 117,259 | 1.2% | 14,411 |
| 2020 | 5,205 | 76,819 | 0.8% | 14,759 |
| 2019 | 6,293 | 81,763 | 0.9% | 12,993 |
| 2018 | 8,651 | 112,283 | 1.3% | 12,979 |
| 2017 | 7,274 | 100,186 | 1.1% | 13,773 |
| 2016 | 11,658 | 172,636 | 1.7% | 14,808 |
| 2015 | 5,446 | 92,728 | 0.8% | 17,027 |
| 2014 | 4,328 | 61,251 | 0.6% | 14,153 |
| 2013 | 4,246 | 63,056 | 0.6% | 14,850 |
| 2012 | 1,766 | 31,675 | 0.3% | 17,936 |
| 2011 | 3,923 | 54,815 | 0.6% | 13,973 |
| 2010 | 12,792 | 164,066 | 1.9% | 12,826 |
| 2009 | 1,961 | 21,399 | 0.3% | 10,912 |
| 2008 | 17,870 | 185,420 | 2.6% | 10,376 |
| 2007 | 18,882 | 252,158 | 2.8% | 13,354 |
| 2006 | 34,243 | 347,895 | 5.1% | 10,160 |
| 2005 | 40,424 | 573,616 | 6.0% | 14,190 |
| 2004 | 35,111 | 475,884 | 5.2% | 13,554 |
| 2003 (11 of 12 months) | 33,667 | 459,108 | — | 13,637 |
| 2002 | 49,214 | 675,845 | 7.3% | 13,733 |
| 2001 | 38,790 | 543,558 | 5.8% | 14,013 |
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.