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Tri Cities — Power plant · Biomass · Salt River Project
  • Bioenergy
  • Retired
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Power plant · Biomass

Key facts

Power plant · Biomassran 47% of 2014 Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2001
Net generation, 2014
20,506 MWh
Grid
12 kV to Salt River Project (SRP)
Location
Maricopa County, Arizona

Operations

Net generation, 2014
20,506MWh
Fuel burned, 2014
327,781MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2014
46.8%
Heat rate, 2014
15,985Btu/kWh
Capacity factor % of full output, by year
Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year
Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
2015 (7 of 12 months)7,333142,686—19,458
201420,506327,78146.8%15,985
201326,139421,51759.7%16,126
201225,961371,27159.1%14,301
201124,203354,12355.3%14,631
201024,384359,30455.7%14,735
200918,299221,00641.8%12,078
200819,008236,73543.3%12,454
200714,76662,73533.7%—
200616,835194,91438.4%11,578
200514,725180,00333.6%12,224
200414,712179,80833.5%12,222
200314,406172,75032.9%11,992
200217,739211,40340.5%11,917
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 sources

Sources EIA-860M · EIA

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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