- Combustion
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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Ladysmith
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 13% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2001
- Net generation, 2025
- 992,525 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Virginia Electric & Power Co (PJM)
- Location
- Caroline County, Virginia
- Operated by
- Virginia Electric & Power Co
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 992,525
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 10,449,093
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 12.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 10,528
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 427,561 | 4,282,124 | — | 10,015 |
| 2025 | 992,525 | 10,449,093 | 12.7% | 10,528 |
| 2024 | 811,249 | 8,731,727 | 10.3% | 10,763 |
| 2023 | 851,408 | 9,272,977 | 10.9% | 10,891 |
| 2022 | 875,311 | 8,881,385 | 11.2% | 10,146 |
| 2021 | 475,467 | 4,915,686 | 6.1% | 10,339 |
| 2020 | 1,153,470 | 11,279,547 | 14.7% | 9,779 |
| 2019 | 656,039 | 6,427,509 | 8.4% | 9,797 |
| 2018 | 698,227 | 6,972,328 | 8.9% | 9,986 |
| 2017 | 573,604 | 5,676,762 | 7.3% | 9,897 |
| 2016 | 769,860 | 7,572,851 | 9.8% | 9,837 |
| 2015 | 445,362 | 4,459,774 | 5.7% | 10,014 |
| 2014 | 751,130 | 7,829,988 | 9.6% | 10,424 |
| 2013 | 786,579 | 8,371,160 | 10.1% | 10,642 |
| 2012 | 584,016 | 6,182,579 | 7.4% | 10,586 |
| 2011 | 402,827 | 4,174,546 | 5.1% | 10,363 |
| 2010 | 884,319 | 9,422,738 | 11.3% | 10,655 |
| 2009 | 323,627 | 3,660,768 | 4.1% | 11,312 |
| 2008 | 255,517 | 2,860,633 | 3.3% | 11,196 |
| 2007 | 206,621 | 2,242,424 | 2.6% | 10,853 |
| 2006 | 108,763 | 1,186,234 | 1.4% | 10,907 |
| 2005 | 132,309 | 1,429,115 | 1.7% | 10,801 |
| 2004 | 55,413 | 630,699 | 0.7% | 11,382 |
| 2003 (10 of 12 months) | 51,352 | 564,315 | — | 10,989 |
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.