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Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 18% of 2024 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1984
- Net generation, 2024
- 1,287,036 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Platte River Power Authority (PSCO)
- Location
- Larimer County, Colorado
- Operated by
- Platte River Power AuthoritySourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Output
- Gas
- Coal
- Oil
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- Platte River Power AuthoritySource100.0%, EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT), as of 31 Dec 2023
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- Technology
- Gas, combustion turbine source: “Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine”
- Age
- 42 years since 1984
- Unused energy
- 5,678 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
- 10,379 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 | 13,844,119 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.190 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 10,378.8 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 1,333,884.0 |
| Balancing authority code | PSCO |
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusSome generators are scheduled to retire; most of the plant's capacity is not, so it is shown as operating. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Next scheduled retirement
- December 2029
- Capacity scheduled to retire
- 293.6 MW
- Generators scheduled to retire
- 1
- Share of in-service capacity scheduled
- 37%
- Capacity still in service
- 800.4 MW
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conventional Steam Coal | 293.6 MW | Scheduled to retire | December 2029 |
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
- Platte River Power Authority
- Balancing authority
- Public Service Company of Colorado
- NERC region
- WECC
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.
Timeline
- Stated Unit 1 scheduled to retire, 293.6 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
5 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · 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 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global 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.
- 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)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
Around this plant
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|---|---|---|---|
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