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Sithe Independence Station: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Sithe Independence Station
Power plant · Gas, combined cycle
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combined cycleran 61% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1994
- Net generation, 2025
- 6,200,228 MWh
- Grid
- 345 kV to Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. (NYIS)
- Location
- Oswego County, New York
- Operated by
- Sithe/Independence LLC
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 6,200,228
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 44,847,873
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 61.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 7,233
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 4,549,180 | 33,355,354 | — | 7,332 |
| 2025 | 6,200,228 | 44,847,873 | 61.1% | 7,233 |
| 2024 | 6,158,050 | 46,820,360 | 60.6% | 7,603 |
| 2023 | 4,042,542 | 29,159,348 | 39.9% | 7,213 |
| 2022 | 3,683,432 | 27,017,226 | 36.3% | 7,335 |
| 2021 | 3,522,189 | 25,780,009 | 34.7% | 7,319 |
| 2020 | 4,144,587 | 30,472,506 | 40.8% | 7,352 |
| 2019 | 4,780,069 | 35,455,102 | 47.1% | 7,417 |
| 2018 | 5,274,607 | 38,555,677 | 52.0% | 7,310 |
| 2017 | 4,294,168 | 32,203,346 | 42.3% | 7,499 |
| 2016 | 4,748,252 | 36,718,924 | 46.7% | 7,733 |
| 2015 | 6,451,931 | 48,817,856 | 63.6% | 7,566 |
| 2014 | 5,996,363 | 44,992,010 | 59.1% | 7,503 |
| 2013 | 5,215,683 | 38,764,847 | 51.4% | 7,432 |
| 2012 | 5,462,396 | 42,286,866 | 53.7% | 7,742 |
| 2011 | 3,109,537 | 23,942,335 | 30.7% | 7,700 |
| 2010 | 3,423,158 | 26,057,061 | 33.8% | 7,612 |
| 2009 | 2,902,602 | 21,159,152 | 28.6% | 7,290 |
| 2008 | 1,190,766 | 12,211,517 | 11.7% | 10,255 |
| 2007 | 2,355,618 | 18,501,524 | 23.2% | 7,854 |
| 2006 | 1,646,804 | 13,874,301 | 16.2% | 8,425 |
| 2005 | 2,746,267 | 21,887,524 | 27.1% | 7,970 |
| 2004 | 1,686,366 | 13,830,955 | 16.6% | 8,202 |
| 2003 | 2,754,534 | 20,954,018 | 27.2% | 7,607 |
| 2002 | 4,131,217 | 31,681,401 | 40.7% | 7,669 |
| 2001 | 7,157,547 | 53,558,392 | 70.6% | 7,483 |
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)