- Wind & solar
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Kit Carson Windpower
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 35% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2010
- Net generation, 2025
- 154,839 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Tri-State G & T Assn, Inc (WACM)
- Location
- Kit Carson County, Colorado
- Operated by
- Deriva EnergySourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 154,839
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 528,312
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 34.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 154,839 | 528,312 | 34.7% | — |
| 2024 | 168,510 | 574,956 | 37.6% | — |
| 2023 | 156,949 | 535,511 | 35.1% | — |
| 2022 | 177,806 | 606,674 | 39.8% | — |
| 2021 | 172,452 | 1,525,166 | 38.6% | — |
| 2020 | 187,846 | 1,646,844 | 41.9% | — |
| 2019 | 164,812 | 1,467,650 | 36.9% | — |
| 2018 | 178,574 | 1,625,737 | 40.0% | — |
| 2017 | 175,696 | 1,618,686 | 39.3% | — |
| 2016 | 185,296 | 1,710,653 | 41.4% | — |
| 2015 | 171,382 | 1,597,110 | 38.4% | — |
| 2014 | 192,909 | 1,834,564 | 43.2% | — |
| 2013 | 182,628 | 1,742,453 | 40.9% | — |
| 2012 | 201,211 | 1,914,723 | 44.9% | — |
| 2011 | 182,950 | 1,777,544 | 40.9% | — |
| 2010 (2 of 12 months) | 26,899 | 262,426 | — | — |
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)