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Belden
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 24% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1969
- Net generation, 2025
- 243,283 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Plumas County, California
- Operated by
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 243,283
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 830,082
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 23.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 260,535 | 888,946 | — | — |
| 2025 | 243,283 | 830,082 | 23.6% | — |
| 2024 | 365,117 | 1,245,780 | 35.3% | — |
| 2023 | 227,786 | 777,206 | 22.1% | — |
| 2022 | 174,359 | 594,913 | 16.9% | — |
| 2021 | 145,216 | 1,284,289 | 14.1% | — |
| 2020 | 247,400 | 2,168,957 | 23.9% | — |
| 2019 | 429,689 | 3,826,378 | 41.6% | — |
| 2018 | 233,801 | 2,128,524 | 22.6% | — |
| 2017 | 285,963 | 2,634,578 | 27.7% | — |
| 2016 | 181,578 | 1,676,328 | 17.5% | — |
| 2015 | 142,826 | 1,330,996 | 13.8% | — |
| 2014 | 161,634 | 1,537,140 | 15.7% | — |
| 2013 | 249,737 | 2,382,743 | 24.2% | — |
| 2012 | 202,966 | 1,931,423 | 19.6% | — |
| 2011 | 314,903 | 3,059,598 | 30.5% | — |
| 2010 | 250,129 | 2,440,257 | 24.2% | — |
| 2009 | 193,940 | 1,892,855 | 18.8% | — |
| 2008 | 202,815 | 1,998,541 | 19.6% | — |
| 2007 | 266,369 | 2,632,792 | 25.8% | — |
| 2006 | 679,425 | 6,739,217 | 65.8% | — |
| 2005 | 316,308 | 3,162,764 | 30.6% | — |
| 2004 | 342,826 | 3,435,802 | 33.1% | — |
| 2003 | 353,584 | 3,621,054 | 34.2% | — |
| 2002 | 205,578 | 2,091,345 | 19.9% | — |
| 2001 | 254,466 | 2,629,397 | 24.6% | — |
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)