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Balch 2
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 40% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1958
- Net generation, 2025
- 342,259 MWh
- Grid
- 230 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
- 342,259
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,167,789
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 40.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 342,259 | 1,167,789 | 40.2% | — |
| 2024 | 443,385 | 1,512,828 | 51.9% | — |
| 2023 | 489,703 | 1,670,866 | 57.5% | — |
| 2022 | 226,603 | 773,169 | 26.6% | — |
| 2021 | 120,507 | 1,065,764 | 14.1% | — |
| 2020 | 251,778 | 2,207,338 | 29.5% | — |
| 2019 | 581,244 | 5,175,979 | 68.3% | — |
| 2018 | 403,455 | 3,673,057 | 47.4% | — |
| 2017 | 549,620 | 5,063,649 | 64.5% | — |
| 2016 | 331,916 | 3,064,249 | 38.9% | — |
| 2015 | 51,608 | 480,934 | 6.1% | — |
| 2014 | 158,988 | 1,511,975 | 18.7% | — |
| 2013 | 194,302 | 1,853,836 | 22.8% | — |
| 2012 | 278,910 | 2,654,108 | 32.7% | — |
| 2011 | 570,043 | 5,538,539 | 67.0% | — |
| 2010 | 557,545 | 5,439,409 | 65.5% | — |
| 2009 | 459,201 | 4,481,801 | 53.9% | — |
| 2008 | 371,031 | 3,656,140 | 43.5% | — |
| 2007 | 235,538 | 2,328,057 | 27.7% | — |
| 2006 | 636,584 | 6,314,277 | 74.8% | — |
| 2005 | 624,696 | 6,246,335 | 73.4% | — |
| 2004 | 368,411 | 3,692,215 | 43.1% | — |
| 2003 | 407,541 | 4,173,627 | 47.9% | — |
| 2002 | 430,417 | 4,378,632 | 50.5% | — |
| 2001 | 301,904 | 3,119,574 | 35.5% | — |
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)