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Smith Mountain
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydro Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1965
- Net generation, 2025
- -86,836 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to Appalachian Power Co (PJM)
- Location
- Pittsylvania County, Virginia
- Operated by
- Appalachian Power CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- -86,836
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,059,785
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- Not stated
- Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | -83,174 | 640,606 | — | — |
| 2025 | -86,836 | 1,059,785 | — | — |
| 2024 | -100,855 | 1,110,132 | — | — |
| 2023 | 176,271 | 2,036,528 | 3.7% | — |
| 2022 | -70,161 | 1,057,172 | — | — |
| 2021 | -21,344 | 2,361,447 | — | — |
| 2020 | 71,784 | 3,383,870 | 1.5% | — |
| 2019 | 5,802 | 2,935,675 | 0.1% | — |
| 2018 | 52,415 | 3,293,545 | 1.1% | — |
| 2017 | -47,483 | 2,721,226 | — | — |
| 2016 | -34,315 | 3,320,760 | — | — |
| 2015 | 60,748 | 2,168,549 | 1.3% | — |
| 2014 | -13,671 | 2,777,529 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22,348 | 2,516,420 | 0.5% | — |
| 2012 | -73,070 | 3,050,840 | — | — |
| 2011 | -74,095 | 4,002,955 | — | — |
| 2010 | -6,445 | 4,721,407 | — | — |
| 2009 | -73,351 | 4,213,021 | — | — |
| 2008 | -325,871 | 4,775,565 | — | — |
| 2007 | -206,640 | 5,095,084 | — | — |
| 2006 | 345,472 | 5,368,072 | 7.2% | — |
| 2005 | -69,472 | 5,219,458 | — | — |
| 2004 | 308,387 | 4,356,022 | 6.4% | — |
| 2003 | 21,764 | 4,641,150 | 0.4% | — |
| 2002 | -207,111 | 5,228,467 | — | — |
| 2001 | -199,219 | 12,346,725 | — | — |
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)