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- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coalran 33% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1982
- Net generation, 2025
- 7,682,536 MWh
- Grid
- 500 kV to Georgia Power Co (SOCO)
- Location
- Monroe County, Georgia
- Operated by
- Georgia Power Co
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 7,682,536
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 84,928,193
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 32.8
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 11,055
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 6,024,588 | 66,361,449 | — | 11,015 |
| 2025 | 7,682,536 | 84,928,193 | 32.8% | 11,055 |
| 2024 | 7,033,943 | 80,740,663 | 30.0% | 11,479 |
| 2023 | 6,461,453 | 72,902,154 | 27.6% | 11,283 |
| 2022 | 7,301,784 | 80,646,257 | 31.2% | 11,045 |
| 2021 | 8,339,312 | 92,021,498 | 35.6% | 11,035 |
| 2020 | 5,633,634 | 65,395,277 | 24.0% | 11,608 |
| 2019 | 12,082,963 | 134,634,388 | 51.6% | 11,142 |
| 2018 | 15,420,443 | 167,099,545 | 65.9% | 10,836 |
| 2017 | 14,175,247 | 153,181,660 | 60.5% | 10,806 |
| 2016 | 16,240,255 | 174,473,516 | 69.2% | 10,743 |
| 2015 | 16,989,297 | 182,159,227 | 72.6% | 10,722 |
| 2014 | 18,894,546 | 200,483,720 | 80.7% | 10,611 |
| 2013 | 20,259,083 | 209,938,748 | 86.5% | 10,363 |
| 2012 | 19,989,996 | 207,198,233 | 85.1% | 10,365 |
| 2011 | 21,343,734 | 219,782,992 | 91.1% | 10,297 |
| 2010 | 23,099,340 | 233,327,440 | 98.7% | 10,101 |
| 2009 | 22,977,980 | 235,615,521 | 98.1% | 10,254 |
| 2008 | 24,348,774 | 251,882,120 | 103.7% | 10,345 |
| 2007 | 25,053,667 | 262,638,982 | — | 10,483 |
| 2006 | 23,150,235 | 238,394,734 | 98.9% | 10,298 |
| 2005 | 24,093,772 | 247,290,099 | 102.9% | 10,264 |
| 2004 | 23,261,025 | 241,145,693 | 99.1% | 10,367 |
| 2003 | 20,180,280 | 205,681,014 | 86.2% | 10,192 |
| 2002 | 20,382,827 | 205,574,643 | 87.1% | 10,086 |
| 2001 | 19,123,679 | 194,992,371 | 81.7% | 10,196 |
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)