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Ames Hydro
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydro Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1906
- Net generation, 2025
- -6 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Tri-State G & T Assn, Inc (WACM)
- Location
- San Miguel County, Colorado
- Operated by
- Public Service Co of ColoradoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- -6
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 0
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- Not stated
- Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | -6 | 0 | — | — |
| 2024 | 548 | 1,870 | 1.7% | — |
| 2023 | 7,119 | 24,289 | 22.6% | — |
| 2022 | 5,714 | 19,497 | 18.1% | — |
| 2021 | 5,261 | 46,529 | 16.7% | — |
| 2020 | 4,664 | 40,889 | 14.8% | — |
| 2019 | 3,398 | 30,260 | 10.8% | — |
| 2018 | 2,295 | 20,892 | 7.3% | — |
| 2017 | 8,109 | 74,709 | 25.7% | — |
| 2016 | 6,972 | 64,368 | 22.1% | — |
| 2015 | 8,996 | 83,835 | 28.5% | — |
| 2014 | 2,294 | 21,815 | 7.3% | — |
| 2013 | 3,964 | 37,822 | 12.6% | — |
| 2012 | 8,210 | 78,127 | 26.0% | — |
| 2011 | 7,617 | 74,007 | 24.1% | — |
| 2010 | 12,522 | 122,166 | 39.7% | — |
| 2009 | 12,730 | 124,246 | 40.4% | — |
| 2008 | 13,516 | 133,187 | 42.7% | — |
| 2007 | 12,450 | 123,054 | 39.5% | — |
| 2006 | 5,058 | 50,170 | 16.0% | — |
| 2005 | 7,738 | 77,372 | 24.5% | — |
| 2004 | 13,302 | 133,313 | 42.1% | — |
| 2003 | 9,343 | 95,682 | 29.6% | — |
| 2002 | 6,540 | 66,531 | 20.7% | — |
| 2001 | 8,644 | 89,318 | 27.4% | — |
How these are worked out
Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.