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Registry, engineering, and operating metrics shown on a consistent EIA basis.

Metric	Bear Garden Buckingham County	Chesterfield Chesterfield County
Capacity	559 MW	446.6 MW
Technology	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle
Operator	Virginia Electric & Power Co	Virginia Electric & Power Co
Operating units	3	8
Latest 12-month generation	3.49 TWh	2.03 TWh
Latest complete-year capacity factor	68.8% (2025)	52.9% (2025)
National technology rank	#278 of 538	#54 of 206
Latest EIA report	2026-06	2026-06

Generation comes from EIA-923. Capacity, unit counts, technology, and reporting relationships come from EIA-860. Incomplete reporting years are excluded from capacity-factor comparisons.

Compare power plants

Registry, engineering, and operating metrics shown on a consistent EIA basis.

Metric	Bear Garden Buckingham County	Chesterfield Chesterfield County
Capacity	559 MW	446.6 MW
Technology	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle
Operator	Virginia Electric & Power Co	Virginia Electric & Power Co
Operating units	3	8
Latest 12-month generation	3.49 TWh	2.03 TWh
Latest complete-year capacity factor	68.8% (2025)	52.9% (2025)
National technology rank	#278 of 538	#54 of 206
Latest EIA report	2026-06	2026-06

Generation comes from EIA-923. Capacity, unit counts, technology, and reporting relationships come from EIA-860. Incomplete reporting years are excluded from capacity-factor comparisons.