- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
- Retired
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Pasadena
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 0% of 2012 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1985
- Net generation, 2012
- 218 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC (ERCO)
- Location
- Harris County, Texas
- Operated by
- Air Products
Operations
- Net generation, 2012
- 218
MWh - Fuel burned, 2012
- 1,172
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2012
- 0.4
% - Heat rate, 2012
- 5,376
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 218 | 1,172 | 0.4% | 5,376 |
| 2011 | 14,994 | 246,791 | 26.3% | 16,459 |
| 2010 | 18,040 | 305,881 | 31.7% | 16,956 |
| 2009 | 20,180 | 132,428 | 35.4% | 6,562 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,768 | 66,290 | 4.9% | 23,953 |
| 2005 | 7,266 | 155,813 | 12.8% | 21,445 |
| 2004 | 3,468 | 84,706 | 6.1% | 24,423 |
| 2003 | 8,987 | 219,792 | 15.8% | 24,457 |
| 2002 | 19,116 | 526,858 | 33.6% | 27,561 |
| 2001 | 24,221 | 420,314 | 42.5% | 17,353 |
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 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- 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)