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Polk
Power plant · Gas, combined cycle
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combined cycleran 34% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1996
- Net generation, 2025
- 4,288,930 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Tampa Electric Co (TEC)
- Location
- Polk County, Florida
- Operated by
- Tampa Electric Co
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 4,288,930
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 32,313,196
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 33.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 7,534
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 2,666,390 | 21,186,790 | — | 7,946 |
| 2025 | 4,288,930 | 32,313,196 | 33.6% | 7,534 |
| 2024 | 5,770,666 | 42,549,130 | 45.1% | 7,373 |
| 2023 | 5,847,924 | 41,945,847 | 45.8% | 7,173 |
| 2022 | 7,301,005 | 52,257,577 | 57.2% | 7,158 |
| 2021 | 5,824,817 | 41,548,881 | 45.6% | 7,133 |
| 2020 | 6,773,871 | 48,681,495 | 52.9% | 7,187 |
| 2019 | 6,988,914 | 50,354,312 | 54.7% | 7,205 |
| 2018 | 8,230,074 | 60,392,997 | 64.4% | 7,338 |
| 2017 | 8,242,116 | 62,035,794 | 64.5% | 7,527 |
| 2016 | 2,223,927 | 23,301,759 | 17.4% | 10,478 |
| 2015 | 1,886,192 | 20,283,501 | 14.8% | 10,754 |
| 2014 | 1,704,166 | 18,000,994 | 13.3% | 10,563 |
| 2013 | 1,478,397 | 16,773,771 | 11.6% | 11,346 |
| 2012 | 1,631,965 | 17,816,979 | 12.7% | 10,918 |
| 2011 (10 of 12 months) | 1,726,750 | 17,933,795 | — | 10,386 |
| 2010 | 1,821,227 | 18,649,873 | 14.3% | 10,240 |
| 2009 | 1,533,775 | 16,458,695 | 12.0% | 10,731 |
| 2008 | 1,666,407 | 17,993,040 | 13.0% | 10,798 |
| 2007 | 1,902,298 | 21,007,244 | 14.9% | 11,043 |
| 2006 | 1,752,512 | 18,983,623 | 13.7% | 10,832 |
| 2005 | 1,384,908 | 14,816,982 | 10.8% | 10,699 |
| 2004 | 1,823,810 | 18,652,514 | 14.2% | 10,227 |
| 2003 (8 of 12 months) | 1,287,422 | 12,435,418 | — | 9,659 |
| 2002 | 1,955,959 | 19,686,181 | 15.3% | 10,065 |
| 2001 | 1,702,520 | 16,639,048 | 13.3% | 9,773 |
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.