- Combustion
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- Operating
Beaver: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Beaver
Power plant · Gas, combined cycle
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, combined cycleran 36% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1974
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,904,190 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Portland General Electric Co (PGE)
- Location
- Columbia County, Oregon
- Operated by
- Portland General Electric CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,904,190
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 18,562,994
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 35.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 9,748
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,904,190 | 18,562,994 | 35.6% | 9,748 |
| 2024 | 1,713,190 | 17,668,433 | 31.9% | 10,313 |
| 2023 | 1,691,849 | 17,242,987 | 31.6% | 10,192 |
| 2022 | 872,985 | 8,913,053 | 16.3% | 10,210 |
| 2021 | 841,643 | 8,545,783 | 15.7% | 10,154 |
| 2020 | 376,873 | 3,894,996 | 7.0% | 10,335 |
| 2019 | 500,551 | 5,174,177 | 9.4% | 10,337 |
| 2018 | 495,578 | 5,114,047 | 9.3% | 10,319 |
| 2017 | 369,940 | 3,840,564 | 6.9% | 10,382 |
| 2016 | 457,474 | 4,539,001 | 8.5% | 9,922 |
| 2015 (10 of 12 months) | 313,221 | 3,308,148 | — | 10,562 |
| 2014 | 206,101 | 2,182,183 | 3.9% | 10,588 |
| 2013 | 273,034 | 2,828,419 | 5.1% | 10,359 |
| 2012 (11 of 12 months) | 26,090 | 355,077 | — | 13,610 |
| 2011 | 46,963 | 599,387 | 0.9% | 12,763 |
| 2010 | 156,620 | 1,642,758 | 2.9% | 10,489 |
| 2009 | 450,165 | 4,438,301 | 8.4% | 9,859 |
| 2008 | 140,955 | 1,523,541 | 2.6% | 10,809 |
| 2007 | 362,903 | 3,606,923 | 6.8% | 9,939 |
| 2006 | 340,454 | 3,426,171 | 6.4% | 10,064 |
| 2005 | 157,598 | 1,693,676 | 2.9% | 10,747 |
| 2004 | 374,953 | 4,014,574 | 7.0% | 10,707 |
| 2003 (9 of 12 months) | 271,457 | 3,534,981 | — | 13,022 |
| 2002 | 544,813 | 6,515,503 | 10.2% | 11,959 |
| 2001 | 3,329,503 | 32,813,070 | 62.2% | 9,855 |
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.