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Sheldon
Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coalran 35% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1961
- Net generation, 2025
- 703,723 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Nebraska Public Power District (SWPP)
- Location
- Lancaster County, Nebraska
- Operated by
- Nebraska Public Power DistrictSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 703,723
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 8,210,091
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 35.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 11,667
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 587,220 | 6,926,854 | — | 11,796 |
| 2025 | 703,723 | 8,210,091 | 35.1% | 11,667 |
| 2024 | 653,206 | 7,605,936 | 32.5% | 11,644 |
| 2023 | 720,909 | 8,453,822 | 36.0% | 11,727 |
| 2022 | 1,007,953 | 11,860,433 | 50.3% | 11,767 |
| 2021 | 844,659 | 9,947,350 | 42.2% | 11,777 |
| 2020 | 497,705 | 5,880,742 | 24.8% | 11,816 |
| 2019 | 738,508 | 8,682,405 | 36.9% | 11,757 |
| 2018 | 905,149 | 10,568,816 | 45.2% | 11,676 |
| 2017 | 697,505 | 8,204,386 | 34.8% | 11,762 |
| 2016 | 515,486 | 6,016,419 | 25.7% | 11,671 |
| 2015 | 969,633 | 11,397,007 | 48.4% | 11,754 |
| 2014 | 1,259,592 | 14,647,608 | 62.9% | 11,629 |
| 2013 | 1,116,054 | 13,026,797 | 55.7% | 11,672 |
| 2012 | 1,029,087 | 12,003,271 | 51.2% | 11,664 |
| 2011 | 1,401,838 | 16,251,619 | 70.0% | 11,593 |
| 2010 | 1,179,533 | 13,792,146 | 58.9% | 11,693 |
| 2009 | 1,522,951 | 17,521,617 | 76.0% | 11,505 |
| 2008 | 1,455,139 | 16,699,604 | 72.4% | 11,476 |
| 2007 | 1,524,243 | 17,421,435 | 76.1% | 11,430 |
| 2006 | 1,526,126 | 17,177,388 | 76.2% | 11,256 |
| 2005 | 1,552,400 | 17,710,948 | 77.5% | 11,409 |
| 2004 | 1,408,057 | 15,765,176 | 70.1% | 11,196 |
| 2003 | 1,273,180 | 14,783,864 | 63.5% | 11,612 |
| 2002 | 1,442,114 | 15,771,983 | 72.0% | 10,937 |
| 2001 | 1,371,688 | 15,312,121 | 68.5% | 11,163 |
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 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)