- Bioenergy
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Bioenergy
- Retired
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Kapstone
Power plant · Biomass
Key facts
Power plant · Biomassran 18% of 2023 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1999
- Net generation, 2023
- 153,176 MWh
- Location
- Charleston County, South Carolina
- Operated by
- WestRock North Charleston
Operations
- Net generation, 2023
- 153,176
MWh - Fuel burned, 2023
- 6,263,405
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2023
- 17.6
% - Heat rate, 2023
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 153,176 | 6,263,405 | 17.6% | — |
| 2022 | 456,468 | 12,772,354 | 52.5% | 27,981 |
| 2021 | 366,689 | 10,681,263 | 42.2% | 29,129 |
| 2020 | 423,725 | 11,804,877 | 48.6% | 27,860 |
| 2019 (11 of 12 months) | 477,951 | 12,214,132 | — | 25,555 |
| 2018 (11 of 12 months) | 435,283 | 11,229,365 | — | 25,798 |
| 2017 | 508,362 | 12,720,529 | 58.5% | 25,023 |
| 2016 | 520,909 | 11,849,028 | 59.8% | 22,747 |
| 2015 | 536,196 | 12,662,356 | 61.7% | 23,615 |
| 2014 | 573,302 | 13,490,313 | 66.0% | 23,531 |
| 2013 | 564,473 | 13,403,661 | 65.0% | 23,745 |
| 2012 | 579,252 | 13,113,008 | 66.5% | 22,638 |
| 2011 | 506,218 | 12,437,010 | 58.2% | 24,568 |
| 2010 | 528,556 | 13,035,597 | 60.8% | 24,663 |
| 2009 | 491,980 | 12,495,301 | 56.6% | 25,398 |
| 2008 | 539,983 | 10,896,001 | 62.0% | 20,178 |
| 2007 | 535,879 | 7,959,410 | 61.7% | 14,853 |
| 2006 | 542,665 | 8,453,829 | 62.5% | 15,578 |
| 2005 | 535,048 | 10,343,717 | 61.6% | 19,332 |
| 2004 | 603,694 | 9,274,000 | 69.3% | 15,362 |
| 2003 | 222,154 | 2,091,144 | 25.6% | 9,413 |
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)