- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
- Retired
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Smithfield
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oilran 1% of 2007 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2003
- Net generation, 2007
- 368 MWh
- Location
- Lenoir County, North Carolina
- Operated by
- Smithfield-Kinston DivisionSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2007
- 368
MWh - Fuel burned, 2007
- 2,734
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2007
- 1.2
% - Heat rate, 2007
- 7,420
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 368 | 2,734 | 1.2% | 7,420 |
| 2006 | 441 | 2,251 | 1.4% | 5,104 |
| 2005 | 510 | 2,771 | 1.6% | 5,438 |
| 2004 | 543 | 2,591 | 1.7% | — |
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)