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Bowman
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 45% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1986
- Net generation, 2025
- 14,170 MWh
- Grid
- 60 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Nevada County, California
- Operated by
- Nevada Irrigation DistrictSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 14,170
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 48,347
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 44.9
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14,170 | 48,347 | 44.9% | — |
| 2024 | 10,580 | 36,099 | 33.5% | — |
| 2023 | 15,325 | 52,288 | 48.6% | — |
| 2022 | 9,127 | 31,140 | 28.9% | — |
| 2021 | 4,870 | 43,069 | 15.4% | — |
| 2020 | 8,897 | 78,000 | 28.1% | — |
| 2019 | 14,275 | 127,121 | 45.3% | — |
| 2018 | 13,920 | 126,727 | 44.1% | — |
| 2017 | 20,462 | 188,516 | 64.9% | — |
| 2016 | 14,700 | 135,711 | 46.5% | — |
| 2015 | 3,953 | 36,839 | 12.5% | — |
| 2014 | 5,083 | 48,340 | 16.1% | — |
| 2013 | 6,280 | 59,918 | 19.9% | — |
| 2012 | 14,149 | 134,641 | 44.7% | — |
| 2011 | 17,811 | 173,051 | 56.5% | — |
| 2010 | 15,222 | 148,508 | 48.3% | — |
| 2009 | 12,689 | 123,845 | 40.2% | — |
| 2008 | 8,067 | 79,492 | 25.5% | — |
| 2007 | 8,334 | 82,373 | 26.4% | — |
| 2006 | 20,529 | 203,625 | 65.1% | — |
| 2005 | 14,538 | 145,365 | 46.1% | — |
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
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)