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P L Bartow

Natural gas power plant · Pinellas County, Florida

Nameplate capacity

1,476 MW

Rank in Florida

#15

of 346 plants

In service since

1972

May 1972

Details

Primary fuel: Natural gas
Technology: Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle
Operator: Duke Energy Florida, LLC
County: Pinellas County
Generating units: 9
Share of state capacity: 1.82%
Rank among natural gas plants in Florida: #11 of 65
EIA plant code: 634

Generating units

Individual generating units at P L Bartow
Unit	Technology	Nameplate	Summer	Online	Status
4ST	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle	421 MW	422 MW	2009	Operating
4AGT	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle	208 MW	174 MW	2009	Operating
4BGT	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle	208 MW	187 MW	2009	Operating
4CGT	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle	208 MW	190 MW	2009	Operating
4DGT	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle	208 MW	193 MW	2009	Operating
P1	Petroleum Liquids	55 MW	41 MW	1972	Operating
P2	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	55 MW	41 MW	1972	Operating
P3	Petroleum Liquids	55 MW	41 MW	1972	Operating
P4	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	55 MW	45 MW	1972	Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

Similarly sized plants in Florida

Big Bend	Natural gas	1,797 MW
Okeechobee Clean Energy Center	Natural gas	1,723 MW
Polk	Natural gas	1,458 MW
Dania Beach 7	Natural gas	1,448 MW

About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 1,476 MW solar plant and a 1,476 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Florida power plants · What Florida actually generates