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Michoud — Power plant · Gas, steam turbine · Entergy New Orleans, LLC
  • Combustion
  • Retired
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Power plant · Gas, steam turbine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, steam turbineran 21% of 2015 Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1957
Net generation, 2015
1,741,896 MWh
Grid
230 kV, 115 kV to Entergy New Orleans Inc (MISO)
Location
Orleans County, Louisiana

Operations

Net generation, 2015
1,741,896MWh
Fuel burned, 2015
18,818,127MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2015
20.7%
Heat rate, 2015
10,803Btu/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.
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
2016 (7 of 12 months)16,709266,042—15,922
20151,741,89618,818,12720.7%10,803
20142,002,94821,910,88323.8%10,939
20131,497,84417,065,45217.8%11,393
20122,346,14526,838,45527.9%11,439
20112,415,71026,791,35228.7%11,090
20101,867,32921,003,52022.2%11,248
20092,203,18925,697,63026.2%11,664
20082,066,83824,112,04624.5%11,666
20071,855,46521,952,08322.1%11,831
2006773,2829,573,7629.2%12,381
20051,661,63218,447,57719.8%11,102
20042,137,98524,222,56225.4%11,330
20032,099,63923,555,96525.0%11,219
20022,416,82428,043,18028.8%11,603
20012,057,43724,073,24924.5%11,701
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

2 sources

Sources EIA-860M · EIA

Sources

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

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