- Combustion
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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Howard Down
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 11% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2012
- Net generation, 2025
- 67,305 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to City of Vineland - (NJ) (PJM)
- Location
- Cumberland County, New Jersey
- Operated by
- City of Vineland - (NJ)
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 67,305
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 699,309
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 11.3
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 10,390
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 14,548 | 152,140 | — | 10,458 |
| 2025 | 67,305 | 699,309 | 11.3% | 10,390 |
| 2024 | 74,407 | 771,344 | 12.4% | 10,367 |
| 2023 | 68,737 | 704,313 | 11.5% | 10,246 |
| 2022 | 67,498 | 704,800 | 11.3% | 10,442 |
| 2021 | 43,212 | 461,420 | 7.2% | 10,678 |
| 2020 | 64,814 | 672,897 | 10.8% | 10,382 |
| 2019 | 80,373 | 828,327 | 13.5% | 10,306 |
| 2018 | 79,762 | 820,325 | 13.4% | 10,285 |
| 2017 | 110,020 | 1,128,526 | 18.4% | 10,258 |
| 2016 | 142,337 | 1,400,143 | 23.8% | 9,837 |
| 2015 | 77,993 | 762,033 | 13.1% | 9,770 |
| 2014 | 76,431 | 754,486 | 12.8% | 9,872 |
| 2013 | 38,523 | 374,713 | 6.5% | 9,727 |
| 2012 | 35,573 | 364,041 | 5.9% | 10,234 |
| 2011 | 2,220 | 31,154 | 0.4% | 14,033 |
| 2010 | 3,745 | 54,939 | 0.6% | 14,670 |
| 2009 | 14,735 | 209,689 | 2.5% | 14,231 |
| 2008 | 44,259 | 642,619 | 7.4% | 14,520 |
| 2007 | 54,273 | 772,598 | 9.1% | 14,235 |
| 2006 | 53,015 | 763,463 | 8.9% | 14,401 |
| 2005 | 95,330 | 1,335,315 | 16.0% | 14,007 |
| 2004 | 99,223 | 1,357,899 | 16.6% | 13,685 |
| 2003 | 72,237 | 1,019,647 | 12.1% | 14,115 |
| 2002 | 62,229 | 810,758 | 10.4% | 13,029 |
| 2001 | 54,031 | 727,400 | 9.0% | 13,463 |
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.