- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- Retired
Rincon Facility: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Rincon Facility
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Operations
- Net generation, 2006
- 12,560
MWh - Fuel burned, 2006
- 223,381
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2006
- 47.8
% - Heat rate, 2006
- 17,786
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 12,560 | 223,381 | 47.8% | 17,786 |
| 2005 | 10,624 | 299,301 | 40.4% | 28,172 |
| 2004 | 15,296 | 265,980 | 58.0% | 17,389 |
| 2003 | 16,462 | 264,274 | 62.6% | 16,054 |
| 2002 | 13,284 | 259,742 | 50.5% | 19,553 |
| 2001 | 21,777 | 332,846 | 82.9% | 15,284 |
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
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- 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)