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Electric Power Annual 2010 Data Tables
With Data for 2010 | Release Date: November 09, 2011 | Next Release Date: November 2012
| Table 1.5. Capacity Additions, Retirements and Changes by Energy Source, 2010 (Count, Megawatts) | |||||||||||
| Energy Source | Generator Additions | Generator Retirements | Changes to Existing Capacity[1] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Gene-rators | Generator Nameplate Capacity | Net Summer Capacity | Net Winter Capacity | Number of Gene-rators | Generator Nameplate Capacity | Net Summer Capacity | Net Winter Capacity | Generator Nameplate Capacity | Net Summer Capacity | Net Winter Capacity | |
| Coal[2] | 9 | 5,836 | 5,246 | 5,268 | 35 | 1,678 | 1,528 | 1,529 | -585 | -1,213 | -916 |
| Petroleum[3] | 53 | 1,001 | 804 | 806 | 59 | 1,114 | 1,043 | 1,046 | -636 | -895 | -1,061 |
| Natural Gas[4] |
106 | 7,544 | 6,543 | 7,206 | 67 | 2,333 | 2,168 | 2,236 | 2,201 | 1,382 | 1,447 |
| Other Gases[5] |
2 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 820 | 673 | 696 |
| Nuclear | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 113 | 164 | 495 |
| Hydroelectric Conventional | 7 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 274 | 287 | 324 |
| Wind | 69 | 4,565 | 4,545 | 4,546 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 271 | 296 | 291 |
| Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic | 61 | 337 | 313 | 300 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 11 | 10 | 10 |
| Wood and Wood Derived Fuels[6] | 3 | 94 | 74 | 78 | 9 | 96 | 97 | 97 | 122 | 121 | 121 |
| Geothermal | 2 | 24 | 13 | 19 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 54 | 10 | 10 |
| Other Biomass[7] | 105 | 139 | 129 | 133 | 32 | 38 | 32 | 34 | -64 | -45 | -40 |
| Pumped Storage | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 39 | 1 |
| Other[8] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50 | 39 | 39 | 34 | 34 | 34 |
| Total | 418 | 19,661 | 17,789 | 18,477 | 210 | 5,321 | 4,916 | 4,989 | 2,612 | 863 | 1,412 |
| [1] Generator re-ratings, re-powering, and revisions/corrections to previously reported data. [2] Anthracite, bituminous coal, subbituminous coal, lignite, and waste coal. [3] Distillate fuel oil (all diesel and No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 fuel oils), residual fuel oil (No. 5 and No. 6 fuel oils and bunker C fuel oil), jet fuel, kerosene, petroleum coke (converted to liquid petroleum, see Technical Notes for conversion methodology), and waste oil. [4] Includes a small number of generators for which waste heat is the primary energy source. [5] Blast furnace gas, propane gas, and other manufactured and waste gases derived from fossil fuels. [6] Wood/wood waste solids (including paper pellets, railroad ties, utility poles, wood chips, bark, and wood waste solids), wood waste liquids (red liquor, sludge wood, spent sulfite liquor, and other wood-based liquids), and black liquor. [7] Municipal solid waste, landfill gas, sludge waste, agricultural byproducts, other biomass solids, other biomass liquids, and other biomass gases (including digester gases, methane, and other biomass gases). [8] Batteries, chemicals, hydrogen, pitch, purchased steam, sulfur, tire-derived fuels and miscellaneous technologies. Notes: • Capacity by energy source is based on the capacity associated with the energy source reported as the most predominant (primary) one, where more than one energy source is associated with a generator. • Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. • In some reporting of capacity data, such as for wind, solar and wave energy sites, the capacity for multiple generators is reported in a single generator record and is presented as a single generator in the count of number of generators. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860, "Annual Electric Generator Report." |
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