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Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 31% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1985
- Net generation, 2025
- 13,509 MWh
- Grid
- 25 kV to Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc (PSCO)
- Location
- Eagle County, Colorado
- Operated by
- City of Aspen- (CO)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 13,509
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 46,093
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 30.8
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13,509 | 46,093 | 30.8% | — |
| 2024 | 18,775 | 64,060 | 42.8% | — |
| 2023 | 16,329 | 55,714 | 37.3% | — |
| 2022 | 12,397 | 42,299 | 28.3% | — |
| 2021 | 12,138 | 107,349 | 27.7% | — |
| 2020 | 16,248 | 142,446 | 37.0% | — |
| 2019 | 15,951 | 142,043 | 36.4% | — |
| 2018 | 15,869 | 144,472 | 36.2% | — |
| 2017 | 16,797 | 154,751 | 38.4% | — |
| 2016 | 22,690 | 209,475 | 51.7% | — |
| 2015 | 20,476 | 190,815 | 46.8% | — |
| 2014 | 20,240 | 192,482 | 46.2% | — |
| 2013 | 1,114 | 10,628 | 2.5% | — |
| 2012 | 12,874 | 122,510 | 29.3% | — |
| 2011 | 18,697 | 181,660 | 42.7% | — |
| 2010 | 15,384 | 150,084 | 35.1% | — |
| 2009 | 19,511 | 190,428 | 44.5% | — |
| 2008 | 20,909 | 206,037 | 47.6% | — |
| 2007 | 17,145 | 169,463 | 39.1% | — |
| 2006 | 17,859 | 177,144 | 40.8% | — |
| 2005 | 15,820 | 158,184 | 36.1% | — |
| 2004 | 11,044 | 110,683 | 25.1% | — |
| 2003 | 12,161 | 124,541 | 27.8% | — |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
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
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)