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Jack Watson
Power plant · Gas, steam turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, steam turbineran 33% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1968
- Net generation, 2025
- 2,633,847 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Mississippi Power Co (SOCO)
- Location
- Harrison County, Mississippi
- Operated by
- Mississippi Power Co
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 2,633,847
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 28,449,708
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 32.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 10,802
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 1,923,830 | 20,469,686 | — | 10,640 |
| 2025 | 2,633,847 | 28,449,708 | 32.7% | 10,802 |
| 2024 | 2,397,023 | 25,762,995 | 29.7% | 10,748 |
| 2023 | 3,271,540 | 34,420,435 | 40.6% | 10,521 |
| 2022 | 2,595,782 | 27,811,846 | 32.2% | 10,714 |
| 2021 | 2,155,493 | 23,269,409 | 26.8% | 10,795 |
| 2020 | 2,234,851 | 24,404,340 | 27.7% | 10,920 |
| 2019 | 2,558,552 | 27,196,371 | 31.8% | 10,630 |
| 2018 | 1,360,217 | 15,766,885 | 16.9% | 11,591 |
| 2017 | 1,466,782 | 17,113,333 | 18.2% | 11,667 |
| 2016 | 727,683 | 8,743,299 | 9.0% | 12,015 |
| 2015 | 1,655,871 | 18,335,200 | 20.6% | 11,073 |
| 2014 | 4,212,373 | 43,351,483 | 52.3% | 10,292 |
| 2013 | 3,178,913 | 32,614,119 | 39.5% | 10,260 |
| 2012 | 1,960,589 | 20,512,120 | 24.3% | 10,462 |
| 2011 | 2,917,125 | 29,738,382 | 36.2% | 10,194 |
| 2010 | 3,013,400 | 31,058,413 | 37.4% | 10,307 |
| 2009 | 2,751,969 | 28,874,619 | 34.2% | 10,492 |
| 2008 | 5,105,373 | 51,494,485 | 63.2% | 10,086 |
| 2007 | 4,802,210 | 48,331,534 | 59.7% | 10,064 |
| 2006 | 4,878,069 | 48,684,318 | 60.6% | 9,980 |
| 2005 | 3,773,739 | 37,688,016 | 46.9% | 9,987 |
| 2004 | 4,701,252 | 46,435,353 | 58.2% | 9,877 |
| 2003 (6 of 12 months) | 2,606,299 | 25,920,296 | — | 9,945 |
| 2002 | 4,731,902 | 47,138,615 | 58.8% | 9,962 |
| 2001 | 4,868,196 | 49,712,787 | 60.5% | 10,212 |
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.