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Fruita
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 1% of 2025 Retiring- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1973
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,781 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to Public Service Co of Colorado (PSCO)
- Location
- Mesa County, Colorado
- Operated by
- Public Service Co of ColoradoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,781
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 36,112
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 0.8
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 20,276
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,781 | 36,112 | 0.8% | 20,276 |
| 2024 | 975 | 16,602 | 0.4% | 17,028 |
| 2023 | 33,948 | 81,793 | 14.6% | — |
| 2022 | -6,609 | 25,316 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2,440 | 90,538 | 1.1% | — |
| 2020 | 1,131 | 20,587 | 0.5% | 18,202 |
| 2019 | 1,302 | 28,783 | 0.6% | 22,107 |
| 2017 | 170 | 6,339 | 0.1% | — |
| 2016 | 258 | 8,069 | 0.1% | — |
| 2015 | 135 | 5,364 | 0.1% | — |
| 2014 | 129 | 5,837 | 0.1% | — |
| 2013 | 302 | 10,643 | 0.1% | — |
| 2012 | 419 | 14,163 | 0.2% | — |
| 2011 | 289 | 9,628 | 0.1% | — |
| 2010 | 579 | 23,432 | 0.2% | — |
| 2009 | 7,093 | 235,964 | 3.0% | — |
| 2008 | 2,353 | 81,764 | 1.0% | — |
| 2007 | 4,298 | 153,700 | 1.8% | — |
| 2006 | 71 | 6,938 | 0.0% | — |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2004 | 77 | 3,737 | 0.0% | — |
| 2003 (10 of 12 months) | 25 | 714 | — | 28,560 |
| 2002 | 180 | 5,664 | 0.1% | — |
| 2001 | 4,730 | 150,760 | 2.0% | — |
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.