Inventory of Electric Utility Power Plants in the United States 2000
Last release: March 2002
Inventory of Electric Utility Power Plants in the United States provides annual statistics on generating units operated by electric utilities in the United States (the 50 States and the District of Columbia). Statistics presented in this report reflect the status of generating units as of December 31, 2000. The publication also provides a 5- year outlook for generating unit additions and generating unit retirements
The "Summary" contains aggregate statistics on existing capacity at the national and various regional levels. Also, for existing capacity, aggregate data at the national level are presented by energy source and prime mover; aggregate data on various regional levels are presented by primary energy source. Certain aggregate statistics on capacity of planned generating unit additions and planned generating unit retirements are presented to the extent that they do not disclose individual company data. This chapter also contains detailed generating unit level data about electric generating units that started commercial operation during 2000 and electric generating units that were retired from service during 2000. The chapter, "Electric Generating Units," gives an overview of the generating technologies represented by generating units reported in this publication. It also presents detailed data about these existing electric generating units
This is a report of electric utility data. Certain data pertaining to ownership may appear for nonutilities that have ownership in generating units operated by electric utilities
Generally, tables in this publication that contain electric utility capacity data present three measures of generator capacity -- generator nameplate capacity, net summer capability, and net winter capability. However, the EIA uses net summer capability as its statistic for analyzing electric utility capacity. Therefore, all discussion of electric utility generating capacity in this publication refers to net summer capability, unless otherwise stated. For an explanation of the three measures of generator capacity, see Appendix A, Technical Notes, "Explanatory Notes." Additionally, any discussion of generator capacity by energy source is based on the primary energy source used by the respective generating unit.