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Gaston
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 14% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1963
- Net generation, 2025
- 225,599 MWh
- Grid
- 232 kV to Virginia Electric & Power Co (PJM)
- Location
- Halifax County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Virginia Electric & Power CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 225,599
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 769,744
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 14.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 82,178 | 280,392 | — | — |
| 2025 | 225,599 | 769,744 | 14.5% | — |
| 2024 | 332,417 | 1,134,208 | 21.3% | — |
| 2023 | 226,842 | 773,985 | 14.6% | — |
| 2022 | 228,399 | 779,296 | 14.7% | — |
| 2021 | 277,538 | 2,455,105 | 17.8% | — |
| 2020 | 376,436 | 3,300,214 | 24.1% | — |
| 2019 | 368,277 | 3,279,507 | 23.7% | — |
| 2018 | 471,892 | 4,296,105 | 30.3% | — |
| 2017 | 271,398 | 2,500,391 | 17.4% | — |
| 2016 | 410,100 | 3,786,044 | 26.3% | — |
| 2015 | 316,933 | 2,953,499 | 20.4% | — |
| 2014 | 309,349 | 2,941,908 | 19.9% | — |
| 2013 | 300,595 | 2,867,977 | 19.3% | — |
| 2012 | 172,191 | 1,638,569 | 11.0% | — |
| 2011 | 199,884 | 1,942,074 | 12.8% | — |
| 2010 | 340,244 | 3,319,423 | 21.9% | — |
| 2009 | 314,594 | 3,070,437 | 20.2% | — |
| 2008 | 158,291 | 1,559,799 | 10.2% | — |
| 2007 | 223,782 | 2,211,861 | 14.4% | — |
| 2006 | 236,875 | 2,349,563 | 15.2% | — |
| 2005 | 273,258 | 2,732,307 | 17.6% | — |
| 2004 | 349,553 | 3,503,220 | 22.4% | — |
| 2003 | 649,944 | 6,656,077 | 41.8% | — |
| 2002 | 134,961 | 1,372,958 | 8.7% | — |
| 2001 | 178,261 | 1,841,971 | 11.5% | — |
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.
Sources
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)