- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- Retired
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Will County
Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coalran 6% of 2021 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1955
- Net generation, 2021
- 694,080 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to Commonwealth Edison Co (PJM)
- Location
- Will County, Illinois
- Operated by
- Midwest Generations EME LLC
Operations
- Net generation, 2021
- 694,080
MWh - Fuel burned, 2021
- 7,754,737
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2021
- 6.2
% - Heat rate, 2021
- 11,173
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 (8 of 12 months) | 304,087 | 3,509,164 | — | 11,540 |
| 2021 | 694,080 | 7,754,737 | 6.2% | 11,173 |
| 2020 | 308,360 | 3,792,082 | 2.8% | 12,298 |
| 2019 | 776,767 | 8,376,728 | 7.0% | 10,784 |
| 2018 | 1,003,780 | 11,170,529 | 9.0% | 11,128 |
| 2017 | 427,184 | 4,277,346 | 3.8% | 10,013 |
| 2016 | 2,112,720 | 22,126,868 | 19.0% | 10,473 |
| 2015 | 2,794,123 | 27,359,109 | 25.1% | 9,792 |
| 2014 | 4,072,414 | 42,189,872 | 36.6% | 10,360 |
| 2013 | 3,869,711 | 40,227,001 | 34.8% | 10,395 |
| 2012 | 3,240,206 | 35,397,142 | 29.1% | 10,924 |
| 2011 | 3,464,092 | 38,142,660 | 31.2% | 11,011 |
| 2010 | 5,786,390 | 60,259,184 | 52.1% | 10,414 |
| 2009 | 5,111,395 | 53,979,081 | 46.0% | 10,560 |
| 2008 | 6,193,964 | 65,527,310 | 55.6% | 10,579 |
| 2007 | 5,544,512 | 58,409,425 | 49.9% | 10,535 |
| 2006 | 5,614,000 | 58,914,286 | 50.5% | 10,494 |
| 2005 | 5,288,882 | 55,197,525 | 47.6% | 10,436 |
| 2004 | 4,939,813 | 49,474,610 | 44.3% | 10,016 |
| 2003 | 3,549,901 | 36,325,333 | 31.9% | 10,233 |
| 2002 | 5,419,706 | 56,520,142 | 48.8% | 10,429 |
| 2001 | 4,196,851 | 48,709,304 | 37.8% | 11,606 |
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
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 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)