- Bioenergy
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Bioenergy
- Operating
Front Range Project: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Front Range Project
Power plant · Biomass
Key facts
Power plant · Biomassran 72% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2011
- Net generation, 2025
- 20,158 MWh
- Grid
- 12 kV to United Power, Inc (WACM)
- Location
- Weld County, Colorado
- Operated by
- Timberline Energy LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 20,158
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 208,361
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 71.9
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 10,336
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20,158 | 208,361 | 71.9% | 10,336 |
| 2024 | 18,637 | 198,567 | 66.3% | 10,654 |
| 2023 | 10,875 | 128,595 | 38.8% | 11,825 |
| 2022 | 13,416 | 168,263 | 47.9% | 12,542 |
| 2021 | 17,309 | 213,309 | 61.8% | 12,324 |
| 2020 | 19,968 | 265,058 | 71.0% | 13,274 |
| 2019 | 20,390 | 250,284 | 72.7% | 12,275 |
| 2018 | 21,526 | 253,741 | 76.8% | 11,788 |
| 2017 | 22,010 | 280,417 | 78.5% | 12,740 |
| 2016 | 23,786 | 254,942 | 84.6% | 10,718 |
| 2015 | 22,063 | 276,528 | 78.7% | 12,534 |
| 2014 | 23,529 | 285,608 | 83.9% | 12,139 |
| 2013 | 24,327 | 293,304 | 86.8% | 12,057 |
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.