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Power plant · Gas, combined cycle
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combined cycleran 45% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1968
- Net generation, 2025
- 2,803,443 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Virginia Electric & Power Co (PJM)
- Location
- Prince William County, Virginia
- Operated by
- Virginia Electric & Power Co
Output
- Gas
- Coal
- Oil
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- Dominion Energy Inc.
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- Technology
- Gas, combined cycle source: “Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle”
- Age
- 58 years since 1968
- Unused energy
- 3,407 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
- 7,345 Btu/kWh 2025
All 7 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
|
| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 20,591,028 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.451 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 7,344.9 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 2,803,443.0 |
| Balancing authority code | PJM |
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusSome generators have retired; the rest of the plant is still in service. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Capacity retired
- 1,372.9 MW
- Generators retired
- 5
- Capacity still in service
- 709 MW
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petroleum Liquids | 69 MW | Retired | March 2002 |
| 2 | Petroleum Liquids | 69 MW | Retired | March 2002 |
| 3 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 113.6 MW | Retired | March 2019 |
| 4 | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 239.3 MW | Retired | March 2019 |
| 5 | Petroleum Liquids | 882 MW | Retired | December 2020 |
By technology
| Technology | Retired | Scheduled to retire |
|---|---|---|
| Petroleum Liquids | 1,020 MW | |
| Natural Gas Steam Turbine | 352.9 MW |
Grid
EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).- Grid voltage at the plant
- 230 kV
- Transmission or distribution system owner
- Virginia Electric & Power Co
- Balancing authority
- PJM Interconnection, LLC
- NERC region
- SERC
Transmission lines within 15 mi (10)
Can the connection be reused?
A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| Dominion Energy Inc. | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
Timeline
- Stated Unit 5 scheduled to retire, 882 MW · EIA-860M
- Stated Units 3, 4 scheduled to retire, 352.9 MW · EIA-860M
- Stated Units 1, 2 scheduled to retire, 138 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
6 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
Sources
- 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.
- LBNLYin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
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Sources Virginia DEQ · FAA OE/AAA · EPA ICIS-NPDES · EPA ICIS-Air
Sources
- Virginia DEQSource: Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
- FAA OE/AAA
- EPA ICIS-NPDES
- EPA ICIS-Air