- Combustion
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
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Waters River: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Waters River
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 1% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1990
- Net generation, 2025
- 5,521 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to City of Peabody - (MA) (ISNE)
- Location
- Essex County, Massachusetts
- Operated by
- City of Peabody - (MA)
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 5,521
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 64,021
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 1.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 11,596
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,521 | 64,021 | 1.5% | 11,596 |
| 2024 | 4,584 | 55,967 | 1.2% | 12,209 |
| 2023 | 4,314 | 54,593 | 1.1% | 12,655 |
| 2022 | 6,318 | 74,012 | 1.7% | 11,714 |
| 2021 | 3,124 | 39,385 | 0.8% | 12,607 |
| 2020 | 3,303 | 43,256 | 0.9% | 13,096 |
| 2019 | 2,173 | 27,921 | 0.6% | 12,849 |
| 2018 | 4,760 | 53,001 | 1.2% | 11,135 |
| 2017 | 14,306 | 172,889 | 3.8% | 12,085 |
| 2016 | 6,132 | 83,657 | 1.6% | 13,643 |
| 2015 | 10,578 | 145,741 | 2.8% | 13,778 |
| 2014 | 10,647 | 128,350 | 2.8% | 12,055 |
| 2013 | 7,152 | 90,435 | 1.9% | 12,645 |
| 2012 | 12,650 | 156,038 | 3.3% | 12,335 |
| 2011 | 12,449 | 149,876 | 3.3% | 12,039 |
| 2010 | 19,359 | 232,256 | 5.1% | 11,997 |
| 2009 | 3,992 | 47,884 | 1.1% | 11,995 |
| 2008 | 10,035 | 60,150 | 2.6% | 5,994 |
| 2007 | 2,697 | 32,470 | 0.7% | 12,039 |
| 2006 | 13,580 | 165,493 | 3.6% | 12,186 |
| 2005 | 28,181 | 359,947 | 7.4% | 12,773 |
| 2004 | 7,779 | 94,957 | 2.0% | 12,207 |
| 2003 (11 of 12 months) | 7,658 | 92,829 | — | 12,122 |
| 2002 | 11,230 | 135,847 | 2.9% | 12,097 |
| 2001 | 22,333 | 282,742 | 5.9% | 12,660 |
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.