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Bear Valley
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 13% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1986
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,595 MWh
- Grid
- 12 kV to San Diego Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- San Diego County, California
- Operated by
- City of Escondido - (CA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,595
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 5,443
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 13.0
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,595 | 5,443 | 13.0% | — |
| 2024 | 4,154 | 14,173 | 33.8% | — |
| 2023 | 2,713 | 9,258 | 22.1% | — |
| 2022 | 417 | 1,423 | 3.4% | — |
| 2021 | 494 | 4,371 | 4.0% | — |
| 2020 | 1,511 | 13,247 | 12.3% | — |
| 2019 | 3,472 | 30,918 | 28.3% | — |
| 2018 | 133 | 1,209 | 1.1% | — |
| 2017 | 2,545 | 23,447 | 20.8% | — |
| 2016 | 806 | 7,441 | 6.6% | — |
| 2015 | 1,100 | 10,251 | 9.0% | — |
| 2014 | 562 | 5,344 | 4.6% | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 10 | 0.0% | — |
| 2012 | 2,649 | 25,206 | 21.5% | — |
| 2011 | 16 | 156 | 0.1% | — |
| 2010 | 452 | 4,411 | 3.7% | — |
| 2009 | 2,241 | 21,873 | 18.3% | — |
| 2008 | 5,545 | 54,641 | 45.1% | — |
| 2007 | 968 | 9,567 | 7.9% | — |
| 2006 | 6,413 | 63,611 | 52.3% | — |
| 2005 | 4,930 | 49,295 | 40.2% | — |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2,811 | 28,596 | 22.9% | — |
| 2001 | 3,366 | 34,781 | 27.5% | — |
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.