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Gianera — Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine · City of Santa Clara - (CA)
  • Combustion
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 3% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1986
Net generation, 2025
15,060 MWh
Grid
60 kV to City of Santa Clara - (CA) (CISO)
Location
Santa Clara County, California
Operated by
City of Santa Clara - (CA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Operations

Net generation, 2025
15,060MWh
Fuel burned, 2025
227,919MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025
2.7%
Heat rate, 2025
15,134Btu/kWh
Capacity factor % of full output, by year
Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year
Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
202515,060227,9192.7%15,134
20246,24194,2071.1%15,095
20239,873147,6951.7%14,960
20227,217106,8461.3%14,805
20216,646103,5501.2%15,581
20206,693102,4001.2%15,300
20194,5747,8250.8%—
20188,019117,2781.4%14,625
20175,49589,4581.0%16,280
20164075,8810.1%14,450
20152213,2330.0%14,629
2014792,5880.0%—
201395214,8320.2%15,580
20121,00815,0400.2%14,921
2011882,3540.0%26,750
20101412,6750.0%18,972
2009181,1950.0%—
200883212,0670.1%14,504
200781512,8340.1%15,747
20061,71625,7040.3%14,979
20052243,8700.0%17,275
200466910,6030.1%15,849
2003 (11 of 12 months)1,70026,649—15,676
200210,938156,9591.9%14,350
20018,704124,1651.5%14,265
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

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Sources EIA-860M · EIA

Sources

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