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Snowden
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 36% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1987
- Net generation, 2025
- 15,759 MWh
- Grid
- 23 kV to Town of Bedford - (VA) (PJM)
- Location
- Bedford County, Virginia
- Operated by
- Town of Bedford - (VA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 15,759
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 53,768
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 36.0
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15,759 | 53,768 | 36.0% | — |
| 2024 | 13,897 | 47,418 | 31.6% | — |
| 2023 | 14,006 | 47,789 | 32.0% | — |
| 2022 | 14,229 | 48,550 | 32.5% | — |
| 2021 | 8,762 | 77,491 | 20.0% | — |
| 2020 | 10,912 | 95,665 | 24.9% | — |
| 2019 | 14,530 | 129,389 | 33.2% | — |
| 2018 | 12,411 | 112,990 | 28.3% | — |
| 2017 | 9,205 | 84,806 | 21.0% | — |
| 2016 | 14,567 | 134,483 | 33.2% | — |
| 2015 | 19,492 | 181,645 | 44.5% | — |
| 2014 | 19,492 | 185,368 | 44.5% | — |
| 2013 | 9,214 | 87,911 | 21.0% | — |
| 2012 | 15,568 | 148,145 | 35.4% | — |
| 2011 | 9,782 | 95,041 | 22.3% | — |
| 2010 | 11,578 | 112,956 | 26.4% | — |
| 2009 | 11,434 | 111,598 | 26.1% | — |
| 2008 | 8,554 | 84,293 | 19.5% | — |
| 2007 | 13,112 | 129,597 | 29.9% | — |
| 2006 | 16,320 | 161,878 | 37.3% | — |
| 2005 | 14,746 | 147,445 | 33.7% | — |
| 2004 | 28,848 | 289,115 | 65.7% | — |
| 2003 | 25,046 | 256,496 | 57.2% | — |
| 2002 | 5,939 | 60,418 | 13.6% | — |
| 2001 | 8,440 | 87,211 | 19.3% | — |
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.