- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- Retired
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Simonds
Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engineran 29% of 2019 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2011
- Net generation, 2019
- 4,570 MWh
- Location
- Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Operated by
- Simonds Saw LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2019
- 4,570
MWh - Fuel burned, 2019
- 52,445
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2019
- 29.0
% - Heat rate, 2019
- 11,476
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4,570 | 52,445 | 29.0% | 11,476 |
| 2018 | 11,580 | 129,928 | 73.4% | 11,220 |
| 2017 | 12,211 | 134,328 | 77.4% | 11,001 |
| 2016 | 9,418 | 104,410 | 59.6% | 11,086 |
| 2015 | 11,220 | 124,149 | 71.2% | 11,065 |
| 2014 | 11,233 | 118,000 | 71.2% | 10,505 |
| 2013 | 12,000 | 120,000 | 76.1% | 10,000 |
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)