Mount Joy Wire

Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine Operating

Commissioned: 2011
Net generation, 2025: 5,148 MWh
Grid: 69 kV to PPL Electric Utilities Corp (PJM)
Location: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Operated by: Mount Joy Wire CorpSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Net generation MWh by year, 2019 to 2025

Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2019 to 2025

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Technology: Gas, reciprocating engine source: “Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine”
Age: 15 years since 2011
Unused energy: 4 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: 11,028 Btu/kWh 2025

All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Attributes
Attribute	Value
Grid	Nerc region RFC Report year 2025 Grid voltage kv 69 Transmission owner PPL Electric Utilities Corp Balancing authority code PJM Balancing authority name PJM Interconnection, LLC
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025	56,772
Capacity factor, 2025	0.534
Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025	11,028.1
Net generation (MWh), 2025	5,147.9
Balancing authority code	PJM

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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)
EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

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