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Electric Power Annual

With Data for 2023 Release Date: October 17, 2024 Next Release: October 2025 full report PDF
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Table 4.14. Fuel-Switching Capacity of Operable Generators Reporting Natural Gas as the Primary Fuel,
by Year of Initial Commercial Operation, 2023 (Megawatts, Percent)

Year of Initial Commercial Operation Number of Natural Gas-Fired Generators Reporting the Ability to Switch to Petroleum Liquids
Net Summer Capacity of Natural Gas-Fired Generators Reporting the Ability to Switch to Petroleum Liquids		 Fuel Switchable Net Summer Capacity Reported to Have No Factors that Limit the Ability to Switch to Petroleum Liquids
Pre-1970 230 9,902.3 3,571.9
1970-1974 204 10,675.6 3,711.5
1975-1979 89 10,508.6 3,971.1
1980-1984 38 834.6 205.6
1985-1989 73 2,149.3 184.8
1990-1994 181 10,962.5 1,307.1
1995-1999 121 8,787.8 950.0
2000-2004 400 38,013.3 5,586.1
2005-2009 115 15,382.6 1,739.0
2010-2014 100 11,465.6 246.4
2015-2019 68 9,433.3 2,671.0
2020-2023 26 2,764.3 2,180.8
Total 1,645 130,879.8 26,325.3

Notes: Petroleum liquids include 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, waste oil, and propane.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860, "Annual Electric Generator Report."