- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
- Retired
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United Cogen
Power plant · Gas, combined cycle
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combined cycleran 71% of 2011 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1985
- Net generation, 2011
- 192,949 MWh
- Location
- San Mateo County, California
- Operated by
- United Cogen IncSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2011
- 192,949
MWh - Fuel burned, 2011
- 1,958,636
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2011
- 71.0
% - Heat rate, 2011
- 10,151
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 (2 of 12 months) | 13,604 | 137,332 | — | 10,095 |
| 2011 | 192,949 | 1,958,636 | 71.0% | 10,151 |
| 2010 | 186,878 | 1,933,315 | 68.8% | 10,345 |
| 2009 | 176,745 | 1,868,901 | 65.1% | 10,574 |
| 2008 | 179,231 | 1,859,534 | 65.8% | 10,375 |
| 2007 | 211,313 | 2,116,538 | 77.8% | 10,016 |
| 2006 | 144,816 | 1,560,037 | 53.3% | 10,772 |
| 2005 | 149,680 | 1,641,462 | 55.1% | 10,966 |
| 2004 | 191,114 | 2,011,604 | 70.2% | 10,526 |
| 2003 | 190,720 | 2,033,153 | 70.2% | 10,660 |
| 2002 | 206,537 | 2,480,706 | 76.1% | 12,011 |
| 2001 | 200,463 | 2,079,339 | 73.8% | 10,373 |
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.