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Balch 1
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 26% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1927
- Net generation, 2025
- 71,150 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Fresno County, California
- Operated by
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 71,150
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 242,763
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 26.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71,150 | 242,763 | 26.2% | — |
| 2024 | 138,842 | 473,728 | 51.0% | — |
| 2023 | 184,360 | 629,037 | 67.9% | — |
| 2022 | 64,353 | 219,571 | 23.7% | — |
| 2021 | 36,687 | 324,460 | 13.5% | — |
| 2020 | 45,723 | 400,856 | 16.8% | — |
| 2019 | 163,231 | 1,453,573 | 60.1% | — |
| 2018 | 82,440 | 750,536 | 30.4% | — |
| 2017 | 177,233 | 1,632,847 | 65.3% | — |
| 2016 | 132,644 | 1,224,569 | 48.7% | — |
| 2015 | 19,306 | 179,914 | 7.1% | — |
| 2014 | 44,325 | 421,529 | 16.3% | — |
| 2013 | 53,980 | 515,024 | 19.9% | — |
| 2012 | 104,804 | 997,316 | 38.5% | — |
| 2011 | 175,246 | 1,702,691 | 64.5% | — |
| 2010 | 145,051 | 1,415,117 | 53.4% | — |
| 2009 | 114,623 | 1,118,720 | 42.2% | — |
| 2008 | 109,783 | 1,081,803 | 40.3% | — |
| 2007 | 39,655 | 391,949 | 14.6% | — |
| 2006 | 186,883 | 1,853,692 | 68.8% | — |
| 2005 | 140,856 | 1,408,419 | 51.9% | — |
| 2004 | 90,272 | 904,706 | 33.1% | — |
| 2003 | 96,337 | 986,587 | 35.5% | — |
| 2002 | 85,590 | 870,707 | 31.5% | — |
| 2001 | 77,005 | 795,693 | 28.4% | — |
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.
Sources
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)