- Bioenergy
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Gas Utilization Facility: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Gas Utilization Facility
Power plant · Biomass
Key facts
Power plant · Biomassran 57% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1985
- Net generation, 2025
- 30,461 MWh
- Grid
- 15 kV to San Diego Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- San Diego County, California
- Operated by
- City of San Diego - (CA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 30,461
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 331,361
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 57.0
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 10,878
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 16,985 | 202,120 | — | 11,900 |
| 2025 | 30,461 | 331,361 | 57.0% | 10,878 |
| 2024 | 31,915 | 341,287 | 59.6% | 10,694 |
| 2023 | 27,927 | 330,093 | 52.3% | 11,820 |
| 2022 | 10,646 | 260,737 | 19.9% | 24,491 |
| 2021 | 10,449 | 311,189 | 19.6% | 29,782 |
| 2020 | 11,459 | 319,317 | 21.4% | 27,866 |
| 2019 | 11,101 | 292,253 | 20.8% | 26,327 |
| 2018 | 16,293 | 342,222 | 30.5% | 21,004 |
| 2017 | 22,094 | 416,080 | 41.3% | 18,832 |
| 2016 | 38,861 | 494,206 | 72.5% | 12,717 |
| 2015 | 35,207 | 370,277 | 65.9% | 10,517 |
| 2014 | 39,211 | 413,890 | 73.4% | 10,555 |
| 2013 | 36,093 | 374,702 | 67.5% | 10,382 |
| 2012 | 34,753 | 406,307 | 64.9% | 11,691 |
| 2011 | 41,545 | 395,390 | 77.8% | 9,517 |
| 2010 | 40,187 | 415,778 | 75.2% | 10,346 |
| 2009 | 31,908 | 347,717 | 59.7% | 10,897 |
| 2008 | 30,908 | 240,001 | 57.7% | 7,765 |
| 2007 | 39,894 | 478,375 | 74.7% | 11,991 |
| 2006 | 40,129 | 433,991 | 75.1% | 10,815 |
| 2005 | 41,889 | 451,017 | 78.4% | 10,767 |
| 2004 | 42,110 | 327,600 | 78.6% | 7,780 |
| 2003 | 42,694 | 205,916 | 79.9% | — |
| 2002 | 30,842 | 329,213 | 57.7% | 10,674 |
| 2001 | 35,458 | 410,400 | 66.4% | 11,574 |
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.