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Powerton
Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coalran 14% of 2024 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1972
- Net generation, 2024
- 2,220,805 MWh
- Grid
- 345 kV to Commonwealth Edison Co (PJM)
- Location
- Tazewell County, Illinois
- Operated by
- Midwest Generations EME LLC
Operations
- Net generation, 2024
- 2,220,805
MWh - Fuel burned, 2024
- 29,939,613
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2024
- 14.2
% - Heat rate, 2024
- 13,481
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 2,396,995 | 25,313,858 | — | 10,561 |
| 2025 (11 of 12 months) | 3,360,233 | 45,224,783 | — | 13,459 |
| 2024 | 2,220,805 | 29,939,613 | 14.2% | 13,481 |
| 2023 | 1,337,628 | 17,918,282 | 8.6% | 13,396 |
| 2022 | 5,094,904 | 62,084,905 | 32.6% | 12,186 |
| 2021 | 2,701,322 | 33,239,260 | 17.3% | 12,305 |
| 2020 | 844,778 | 11,321,370 | 5.4% | 13,402 |
| 2019 | 2,334,751 | 28,371,404 | 14.9% | 12,152 |
| 2018 | 4,511,849 | 53,208,747 | 28.8% | 11,793 |
| 2017 | 4,913,800 | 58,583,502 | 31.4% | 11,922 |
| 2016 | 4,549,252 | 53,415,674 | 29.0% | 11,742 |
| 2015 | 5,584,776 | 62,390,000 | 35.7% | 11,171 |
| 2014 | 8,511,424 | 94,558,049 | 54.4% | 11,110 |
| 2013 | 8,359,098 | 92,162,990 | 53.4% | 11,026 |
| 2012 | 8,166,591 | 91,985,618 | 52.1% | 11,264 |
| 2011 | 9,183,981 | 101,078,637 | 58.7% | 11,006 |
| 2010 | 9,013,199 | 97,056,513 | 57.6% | 10,768 |
| 2009 | 9,334,808 | 100,045,135 | 59.7% | 10,717 |
| 2008 | 9,194,144 | 98,492,118 | 58.6% | 10,712 |
| 2007 | 8,261,190 | 89,510,068 | 52.8% | 10,835 |
| 2006 | 7,642,897 | 83,836,064 | 48.9% | 10,969 |
| 2005 | 9,469,508 | 103,914,773 | 60.5% | 10,974 |
| 2004 | 8,898,231 | 98,015,972 | 56.7% | 11,015 |
| 2003 | 8,241,846 | 89,495,651 | 52.7% | 10,859 |
| 2002 | 7,618,895 | 83,457,361 | 48.7% | 10,954 |
| 2001 | 7,503,010 | 86,616,709 | 48.0% | 11,544 |
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)