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Bear Mountain Limited
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combustion turbineran 9% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1995
- Net generation, 2025
- 36,314 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Kern County, California
- Operated by
- WCAC Operating Company
Output
- Gas
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- Technology
- Gas, combustion turbine source: “Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine”
- Age
- 31 years since 1995
- Unused energy
- 367 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
- Heat rate
- 9,728 Btu/kWh 2025
All 8 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
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| Grid |
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| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 353,256 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.090 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 9,727.8 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 36,314 |
| Balancing authority code | CISO |
Ownership
3 companies3| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WCAC Operating Company | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| BEAR MOUNTAIN LTD | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| WGP Redwood Holdings, LLC | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
6 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT) · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Sources
- 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)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Around this plant
Nearby
within 15 mi| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolthouse Farms Fuel Cell Postponed | Gas, other | 4.4 mi | 5 |
| Kern Front Postponed | Solar | 9.2 mi | 18.9 |
| North Kern Water Storage District 2 Postponed | Solar | 13.2 mi | 2.5 |
| North Kern Water Storage District 1 Postponed | Solar | 14.1 mi | 2.5 |
| Imperator Solar Under construction | Solar | 14.4 mi | 2 |
| Lerdo Middle Under construction | Solar | 14.5 mi | 2.4 |
Sources EIA-860M