- Combustion
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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Rowan
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 40% of 2024 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2001
- Net generation, 2024
- 4,154,609 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DUK)
- Location
- Rowan County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Southern Power Co
Operations
- Net generation, 2024
- 4,154,609
MWh - Fuel burned, 2024
- 30,040,655
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2024
- 39.7
% - Heat rate, 2024
- 7,231
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 3,605,304 | 27,096,307 | — | 7,516 |
| 2025 (11 of 12 months) | 4,296,911 | 31,227,551 | — | 7,267 |
| 2024 | 4,154,609 | 30,040,655 | 39.7% | 7,231 |
| 2023 | 4,318,637 | 30,550,282 | 41.4% | 7,074 |
| 2022 | 4,474,654 | 33,174,268 | 42.9% | 7,414 |
| 2021 | 4,382,859 | 32,006,273 | 42.0% | 7,303 |
| 2020 | 4,362,132 | 31,222,025 | 41.7% | 7,158 |
| 2019 | 4,669,857 | 33,944,486 | 44.7% | 7,269 |
| 2018 | 4,693,044 | 34,090,456 | 44.9% | 7,264 |
| 2017 | 4,104,407 | 29,658,786 | 39.3% | 7,226 |
| 2016 | 4,290,294 | 32,105,397 | 41.0% | 7,483 |
| 2015 | 2,793,353 | 20,314,766 | 26.8% | 7,272 |
| 2014 | 2,704,083 | 19,407,168 | 25.9% | 7,177 |
| 2013 | 2,657,015 | 19,004,005 | 25.4% | 7,152 |
| 2012 | 3,257,019 | 23,680,927 | 31.1% | 7,271 |
| 2011 | 2,555,761 | 18,653,071 | 24.5% | 7,298 |
| 2010 | 2,122,231 | 15,964,990 | 20.3% | 7,523 |
| 2009 | 897,960 | 6,754,750 | 8.6% | 7,522 |
| 2008 | 906,805 | 6,842,743 | 8.7% | 7,546 |
| 2007 | 919,713 | 7,493,005 | 8.8% | 8,147 |
| 2006 | 697,442 | 5,720,814 | 6.7% | 8,203 |
| 2005 (11 of 12 months) | 507,723 | 3,992,371 | — | 7,863 |
| 2004 | 356,425 | 2,620,710 | 3.4% | 7,353 |
| 2003 | 202,346 | 1,828,101 | 1.9% | 9,034 |
| 2002 | 88,930 | 972,085 | 0.9% | 10,931 |
| 2001 | 107,764 | 1,160,966 | 1.0% | 10,773 |
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.