Electric generating plantEIA plant no. 54743

District 100 Transco Gas Pipe Line

Type
All Other
Status
Retired July 2009
Nameplate (when running)
1.6 MW
Units
2
In service since
1951
Operator
Transcontinental Gas Pl Corp
Location
Billingsley, Chilton County, Alabama

District 100 Transco Gas Pipe Line is retired. EIA's monthly generator inventory (EIA-860M, August 2026) lists every generator at this other plant as retired; the last one retired in July 2009. It is not counted among Alabama's operating plants or in any ranking on this site.

The figures below describe the plant when it ran: equipment from EIA Form 860 (2024).

The 1.6 MW is nameplate capacity: the most this plant's generators are rated to produce, not what it actually generates. EPA eGRID reports no positive net generation for it this year.

How it works

A steam plant burning fuel

fuel insteamwater returns1boiler burns fuel2steam spins turbine3generator4cooling condenses steam
  1. A boiler burns fuel to turn water into high-pressure steam.
  2. The steam pushes through a turbine, spinning it thousands of times a minute.
  3. The turbine's shaft turns a generator, which sends power to the grid.
  4. Spent steam is cooled back into water — by a cooling tower, a lake or a river — and pumped back to the boiler.

Why the numbers look like this: a boiler and turbine this size take hours to bring up from cold, so steam plants were built to run steadily for long stretches. A steam plant with a low capacity factor is usually being held in reserve, or run only through the hottest and coldest weeks.

This plant highlighted in navy-ringed pin; other generators within 25 miles shown as fuel-colored dots.

Natural GasHydroelectricBiomass

Location

Address4521 Chilton Rd
CityBillingsley
CountyChilton County
StateAlabama
ZIP36006
Coordinates32.66889, -86.72000
OperatorTranscontinental Gas Pl Corp

Generators (2)

IDTechnologyFuelNameplate capacityStatusOnline
001All OtherWH0.8 MWRetired1951
002All OtherWH0.8 MWRetired1951

Grid context

NERC RegionSERC
Balancing AuthoritySouthern Company Services, Inc. - Trans

About Other plants

District 100 Transco Gas Pipe Line is a federally registered power generation facility in Alabama.

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