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

Commissioned: 1971
Net generation, 2025: 3,950,432 MWh
Grid: 765 kV to Ohio Power Co (PJM)
Location: Marshall County, West Virginia
Operated by: Kentucky Power Co

Net generation, 2025: 3,950,432MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 42,041,944MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 27.6%
Heat rate, 2025: 10,642Btu/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)
2026 (8 of 12 months)	2,409,648	25,202,920	—	10,459
2025	3,950,432	42,041,944	27.6%	10,642
2024	4,090,177	44,739,210	28.5%	10,938
2023	3,327,304	35,982,022	23.3%	10,814
2022	3,501,887	38,092,761	24.5%	10,878
2021	4,769,104	50,105,689	33.4%	10,506
2020	3,611,720	38,196,903	25.2%	10,576
2019	5,040,707	53,999,208	35.2%	10,713
2018	5,503,291	59,435,449	38.5%	10,800
2017	7,686,847	76,623,373	53.8%	9,968
2016	7,683,746	77,944,099	53.6%	10,144
2015	5,367,819	54,127,366	37.5%	10,084
2014	8,506,340	83,111,057	59.5%	9,770
2013	5,956,991	59,778,209	41.6%	10,035
2012	7,544,338	75,663,360	52.6%	10,029
2011	9,124,435	89,674,710	63.8%	9,828
2010	10,242,061	99,917,522	71.6%	9,756
2009	9,389,850	92,127,297	65.7%	9,811
2008	10,638,648	104,765,452	74.2%	9,848
2007	8,777,630	82,043,647	61.4%	9,347
2006	7,609,049	73,376,730	53.2%	9,643
2005	6,931,908	68,296,458	48.5%	9,852
2004	9,100,750	89,101,620	63.5%	9,791
2003	9,636,577	93,582,233	67.4%	9,711
2002	9,231,567	89,359,446	64.5%	9,680
2001	8,139,869	78,336,004	56.9%	9,624

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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