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Martinez Refining
Power plant · Gas, combined cycle
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combined cycleran 84% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1995
- Net generation, 2025
- 733,953 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Contra Costa County, California
- Operated by
- Martinez Refining Co
Output
- Gas
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- PBF Energy Inc
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- Technology
- Gas, combined cycle source: “Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle”
- Age
- 31 years since 1995
- Unused energy
- 142 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
- Heat rate
- 13,875 Btu/kWh 2025
All 7 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
|
| Grid |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 10,183,604 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.838 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 13,875 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 733,953 |
| Balancing authority code | CISO |
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martinez Refining Co | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| PBF ENERGY INC | Owner | 100.0% | 31 Dec 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
5 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
Sources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global 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.
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
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