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SunSelect1
Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engineran 4% of 2020 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2018
- Net generation, 2020
- 2,421 MWh
- Grid
- 12 kV to Southern California Edison Co (CISO)
- Location
- Kern County, California
- Operated by
- SunSelect Produce (California) IncSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2020
- 2,421
MWh - Fuel burned, 2020
- 21,842
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2020
- 4.2
% - Heat rate, 2020
- 9,022
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2,421 | 21,842 | 4.2% | 9,022 |
| 2019 | 25,683 | 287,528 | 44.4% | 11,195 |
| 2018 (7 of 12 months) | 8,160 | 75,405 | — | 9,241 |
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)