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Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine Operating

Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 1976
Net generation, 2025: 5,878 MWh
Grid: 66 kV to Southern California Edison Co (CISO)
Location: Los Angeles County, California
Operated by: Long Beach Generation LLC

Net generation, 2025: 5,878MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 102,048MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 0.3%
Heat rate, 2025: 17,361Btu/kWh

Capacity factor % of full output, by year

Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year

Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
Year	Net generation (MWh)	Fuel burned (MMBtu)	Capacity factor	Heat rate (Btu/kWh)
2025	5,878	102,048	0.3%	17,361
2024	10,349	170,861	0.5%	16,510
2023	10,112	173,436	0.5%	17,152
2022	16,222	267,701	0.7%	16,502
2021	15,517	262,993	0.7%	16,949
2020	34,123	581,890	1.5%	17,053
2019	14,582	250,739	0.7%	17,195
2018	22,511	385,250	1.0%	17,114
2017	32,383	537,919	1.5%	16,611
2016	25,032	417,367	1.1%	16,673
2015	20,503	339,488	0.9%	16,558
2014	20,383	339,394	0.9%	16,651
2013	24,435	395,074	1.1%	16,168
2012	100,057	1,606,646	4.5%	16,057
2011	20,909	335,623	0.9%	16,052
2010	36,219	580,883	1.6%	16,038
2009	34,377	560,235	1.6%	16,297
2008	22,293	428,553	1.0%	19,224
2007 (5 of 12 months)	24,705	423,855	—	17,157
2004	123,198	1,647,343	5.6%	13,372
2003	120,691	1,497,858	5.5%	12,411
2002	112,390	1,290,943	5.1%	11,486
2001	796,365	8,665,194	36.1%	10,881

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.

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Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

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EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global 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.
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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