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Power plant · Solar
Key facts
Power plant · Solarran 16% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2021
- Net generation, 2025
- 3,163 MWh
- Grid
- 208 kV, 120 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (CISO)
- Location
- Contra Costa County, California
- Operated by
- Vista Solar, Inc.
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 3,163
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 10,792
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 15.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,163 | 10,792 | 15.7% | — |
| 2024 | 3,179 | 10,846 | 15.7% | — |
| 2023 | 3,344 | 11,408 | 16.6% | — |
| 2022 | 3,890 | 13,274 | 19.3% | — |
| 2021 (3 of 12 months) | 535 | 4,732 | — | — |
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)