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Columbus
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 31% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1936
- Net generation, 2025
- 124,599 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Nebraska Public Power District (SWPP)
- Location
- Platte County, Nebraska
- Operated by
- Loup River Public Power DistSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 124,599
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 425,133
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 31.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 124,599 | 425,133 | 31.2% | — |
| 2024 | 119,508 | 407,761 | 29.8% | — |
| 2023 | 123,821 | 422,478 | 31.0% | — |
| 2022 | 87,996 | 300,241 | 22.0% | — |
| 2021 | 120,024 | 1,061,492 | 30.0% | — |
| 2020 | 110,904 | 972,296 | 27.7% | — |
| 2019 | 77,398 | 689,229 | 19.4% | — |
| 2018 | 151,720 | 1,381,260 | 38.0% | — |
| 2017 | 134,696 | 1,240,955 | 33.7% | — |
| 2016 | 136,523 | 1,260,381 | 34.1% | — |
| 2015 | 135,492 | 1,262,649 | 33.9% | — |
| 2014 | 132,105 | 1,256,318 | 33.1% | — |
| 2013 | 117,714 | 1,123,109 | 29.5% | — |
| 2012 | 90,361 | 859,877 | 22.6% | — |
| 2011 | 147,645 | 1,434,520 | 37.0% | — |
| 2010 | 155,591 | 1,517,947 | 39.0% | — |
| 2009 | 149,281 | 1,456,981 | 37.4% | — |
| 2008 | 138,516 | 1,364,937 | 34.6% | — |
| 2007 | 132,879 | 1,313,376 | 33.3% | — |
| 2006 | 108,860 | 1,079,783 | 27.3% | — |
| 2005 | 109,505 | 1,094,940 | 27.4% | — |
| 2004 | 91,515 | 917,163 | 22.9% | — |
| 2003 | 97,254 | 995,978 | 24.3% | — |
| 2002 | 85,038 | 865,092 | 21.3% | — |
| 2001 | 117,629 | 1,215,460 | 29.4% | — |
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
- 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)