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Pawnee
Power plant · Gas, steam turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, steam turbineran 24% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1981
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,174,418 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Public Service Co of Colorado (PSCO)
- Location
- Morgan County, Colorado
- Operated by
- Public Service Co of Colorado
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,174,418
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 13,634,900
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 24.3
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 11,610
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 1,567,094 | 17,168,750 | — | 10,956 |
| 2025 | 1,174,418 | 13,634,900 | 24.3% | 11,610 |
| 2024 | 2,167,927 | 25,223,877 | 44.7% | 11,635 |
| 2023 | 2,711,798 | 32,873,623 | 56.0% | 12,122 |
| 2022 | 2,503,503 | 28,175,864 | 51.7% | 11,255 |
| 2021 | 2,871,522 | 32,008,303 | 59.4% | 11,147 |
| 2020 | 3,067,953 | 34,179,908 | 63.2% | 11,141 |
| 2019 | 2,510,140 | 27,931,250 | 51.9% | 11,127 |
| 2018 | 3,279,923 | 36,091,137 | 67.8% | 11,004 |
| 2017 | 3,521,113 | 38,080,696 | 72.8% | 10,815 |
| 2016 | 2,705,324 | 28,810,349 | 55.8% | 10,650 |
| 2015 | 3,427,166 | 37,010,907 | 70.8% | 10,799 |
| 2014 | 2,704,998 | 28,518,715 | 55.9% | 10,543 |
| 2013 | 3,093,582 | 32,250,117 | 63.9% | 10,425 |
| 2012 | 3,264,261 | 34,211,852 | 67.3% | 10,481 |
| 2011 | 2,939,559 | 31,512,988 | 60.8% | 10,720 |
| 2010 | 3,378,350 | 35,864,903 | 69.8% | 10,616 |
| 2009 | 2,100,489 | 22,401,640 | 43.4% | 10,665 |
| 2008 | 3,526,673 | 37,488,746 | 72.7% | 10,630 |
| 2007 | 3,751,728 | 39,834,276 | 77.5% | 10,618 |
| 2006 | 3,765,345 | 39,491,797 | 77.8% | 10,488 |
| 2005 | 2,938,567 | 31,064,092 | 60.7% | 10,571 |
| 2004 | 3,519,284 | 37,207,160 | 72.5% | 10,572 |
| 2003 | 3,903,171 | 41,427,373 | 80.7% | 10,614 |
| 2002 | 3,316,714 | 35,239,606 | 68.5% | 10,625 |
| 2001 | 4,009,881 | 42,292,421 | 82.9% | 10,547 |
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
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)