On December 1, the EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) published its latest report on capacity factors for power plants based on data for September 2015. Capacity factors for both coal and ...

The average utilization rate (or capacity factor) for the entire U.S. fleet of combined-cycle natural gas turbine (CCGT) electric power plants has risen as the operating efficiency of new CCGT units ...

Over the past two decades, nuclear power plants have achieved increasingly higher capacity factors with the same or greater levels of safety. The average capacity factor for U.S. plants in operation ...

How should investors think about factor capacity? It’s a top-of-mind question for asset owners today, so II asked guest writer Andrew Ang, PhD, Head of Factor Investing Strategies at BlackRock for his ...

The average capacity factor for U.S. natural gas–fired combined cycle power plants (CCPPs) exceeded that for coal-fired plants in 2015 for the first time since the Energy Information Administration ...

Anyone who hangs around in the comments section of sites covering wind energy knows one thing — clean energy haters love to talk about wind turbine capacity factor. In particular, they love to chant ...

U.S. combined-cycle power plants with duct firing capability ran at a higher average capacity factor (59%) than plants without (47%) in 2020, according to a recent report from the U.S. Energy ...

Utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) generation has exploded over the past few years. From nearly nothing in the late 2000s, the U.S. now has more than 10 GW of utility-scale solar PV in operation ...

Higher concentrations of solar interconnecting and thermal units retiring enable the Directors of Resource Planning at transmission utilities to adapt the capacity credit calculations of wind for ...