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Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 6% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1940
- Net generation, 2025
- 9,688 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to Austin Energy (ERCO)
- Location
- Travis County, Texas
- Operated by
- Lower Colorado River AuthoritySourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 9,688
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 33,057
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 6.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9,688 | 33,057 | 6.1% | — |
| 2024 | 4,092 | 13,961 | 2.6% | — |
| 2023 | 4,704 | 16,050 | 3.0% | — |
| 2022 | 13,156 | 44,888 | 8.3% | — |
| 2021 | 7,557 | 66,835 | 4.8% | — |
| 2020 | 15,237 | 133,582 | 9.6% | — |
| 2019 | 37,665 | 335,407 | 23.9% | — |
| 2018 | 33,640 | 306,257 | 21.3% | — |
| 2017 | 24,206 | 223,011 | 15.3% | — |
| 2016 | 33,362 | 307,998 | 21.1% | — |
| 2015 | 2,617 | 24,390 | 1.7% | — |
| 2014 | 3,155 | 30,003 | 2.0% | — |
| 2013 | 5,015 | 47,847 | 3.2% | — |
| 2012 | 2,917 | 27,757 | 1.8% | — |
| 2011 | 29,731 | 288,866 | 18.9% | — |
| 2010 | 26,951 | 262,934 | 17.1% | — |
| 2009 | 28,182 | 275,057 | 17.9% | — |
| 2008 | 29,548 | 291,165 | 18.7% | — |
| 2007 | 41,952 | 414,654 | 26.6% | — |
| 2006 | 26,025 | 258,143 | 16.5% | — |
| 2005 | 50,304 | 502,990 | 31.9% | — |
| 2004 | 40,303 | 403,917 | 25.5% | — |
| 2003 | 41,443 | 424,418 | 26.3% | — |
| 2002 | 32,726 | 332,922 | 20.8% | — |
| 2001 | 47,956 | 495,529 | 30.4% | — |
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.