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Colgate
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 46% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1969
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,258,492 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV, 60 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Yuba County, California
- Operated by
- Yuba County Water Agency - (CA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,258,492
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 4,293,975
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 45.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2025 | 1,258,492 | 4,293,975 | 45.6% | — |
| 2024 | 1,271,004 | 4,336,667 | 45.9% | — |
| 2023 | 1,695,199 | 5,784,020 | 61.4% | — |
| 2022 | 619,846 | 2,114,916 | 22.5% | — |
| 2021 | 518,171 | 4,582,705 | 18.8% | — |
| 2020 | 747,460 | 6,552,982 | 27.0% | — |
| 2019 | 1,638,632 | 14,592,017 | 59.4% | — |
| 2018 | 1,090,613 | 9,928,939 | 39.5% | — |
| 2017 | 1,699,955 | 15,661,684 | 61.6% | — |
| 2016 | 1,052,713 | 9,718,648 | 38.0% | — |
| 2015 | 462,425 | 4,309,339 | 16.8% | — |
| 2014 | 538,803 | 5,124,017 | 19.5% | — |
| 2013 | 904,940 | 8,634,031 | 32.8% | — |
| 2012 | 1,103,485 | 10,500,764 | 39.9% | — |
| 2011 | 1,748,637 | 16,989,758 | 63.4% | — |
| 2010 | 1,155,489 | 11,272,951 | 41.9% | — |
| 2009 | 886,253 | 8,649,829 | 32.1% | — |
| 2008 | 629,655 | 6,204,620 | 22.8% | — |
| 2007 | 888,555 | 8,782,478 | 32.2% | — |
| 2006 | 1,650,702 | 16,373,314 | 59.8% | — |
| 2005 | 1,154,086 | 11,539,706 | 41.8% | — |
| 2004 | 1,152,009 | 11,545,434 | 41.6% | — |
| 2003 | 1,381,161 | 14,144,470 | 50.0% | — |
| 2002 | 1,043,061 | 10,611,060 | 37.8% | — |
| 2001 | 619,469 | 6,400,973 | 22.4% | — |
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 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global 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.
- 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)