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Central 40
Power plant · Solar
Key facts
Power plant · Solarran 20% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2021
- Net generation, 2025
- 69,471 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (CISO)
- Location
- Stanislaus County, California
- Operated by
- Central 40, LLC
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 69,471
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 237,034
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 19.8
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 54,781 | 186,913 | — | — |
| 2025 | 69,471 | 237,034 | 19.8% | — |
| 2024 | 68,519 | 233,788 | 19.5% | — |
| 2023 | 70,027 | 238,932 | 20.0% | — |
| 2022 | 87,976 | 300,176 | 25.1% | — |
| 2021 (11 of 12 months) | 94,995 | 840,136 | — | — |
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)