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McCook
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oilran 1% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1973
- Net generation, 2025
- 3,460 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Nebraska Public Power District (SWPP)
- Location
- Red Willow County, Nebraska
- Operated by
- Nebraska Public Power DistrictSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 3,460
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 44,491
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 0.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 12,859
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,460 | 44,491 | 0.7% | 12,859 |
| 2024 | 3,752 | 48,203 | 0.8% | 12,847 |
| 2023 | 1,457 | 19,702 | 0.3% | 13,522 |
| 2022 | 2,430 | 31,131 | 0.5% | 12,811 |
| 2021 | 1,985 | 25,011 | 0.4% | 12,600 |
| 2020 | 683 | 9,066 | 0.1% | 13,274 |
| 2019 | 717 | 9,239 | 0.1% | 12,886 |
| 2018 | 528 | 7,063 | 0.1% | 13,377 |
| 2017 | 291 | 3,805 | 0.1% | 13,076 |
| 2016 | 603 | 8,372 | 0.1% | 13,884 |
| 2015 | 437 | 6,070 | 0.1% | 13,890 |
| 2014 | 713 | 22,366 | 0.1% | — |
| 2013 | 342 | 4,931 | 0.1% | 14,418 |
| 2012 | 117 | 1,702 | 0.0% | 14,547 |
| 2011 | 410 | 5,666 | 0.1% | 13,820 |
| 2010 | 153 | 2,668 | 0.0% | 17,438 |
| 2009 | 401 | 5,679 | 0.1% | 14,162 |
| 2008 | 1,787 | 22,707 | 0.4% | 12,707 |
| 2007 | 636 | 8,119 | 0.1% | 12,766 |
| 2006 | 559 | 8,948 | 0.1% | 16,007 |
| 2005 | 1,859 | 22,148 | 0.4% | 11,914 |
| 2004 | 1,050 | 13,168 | 0.2% | 12,541 |
| 2003 | 2,210 | 28,992 | 0.4% | 13,119 |
| 2002 | 1,344 | 16,274 | 0.3% | 12,109 |
| 2001 | 913 | 12,038 | 0.2% | 13,185 |
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.