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Cresta
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 53% of 2025 Out of service- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1949
- Net generation, 2025
- 341,741 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Butte County, California
- Operated by
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 341,741
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,166,021
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 52.9
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 341,741 | 1,166,021 | 52.9% | — |
| 2024 | 338,088 | 1,153,556 | 52.1% | — |
| 2023 | 121,710 | 415,275 | 18.8% | — |
| 2022 | 155,228 | 529,640 | 24.0% | — |
| 2021 | 124,158 | 1,098,052 | 19.2% | — |
| 2020 | 162,870 | 1,427,881 | 25.1% | — |
| 2019 | 371,172 | 3,305,288 | 57.4% | — |
| 2018 | 190,017 | 1,729,914 | 29.4% | — |
| 2017 | 368,101 | 3,391,314 | 56.9% | — |
| 2016 | 250,939 | 2,316,668 | 38.7% | — |
| 2015 | 124,142 | 1,156,878 | 19.2% | — |
| 2014 | 148,108 | 1,408,506 | 22.9% | — |
| 2013 | 198,325 | 1,892,219 | 30.7% | — |
| 2012 | 220,162 | 2,095,062 | 34.0% | — |
| 2011 | 385,688 | 3,747,346 | 59.7% | — |
| 2010 | 290,320 | 2,832,363 | 44.9% | — |
| 2009 | 208,029 | 2,030,363 | 32.2% | — |
| 2008 | 195,219 | 1,923,688 | 30.1% | — |
| 2007 | 196,134 | 1,938,587 | 30.3% | — |
| 2006 | 439,922 | 4,363,586 | 68.0% | — |
| 2005 | 363,199 | 3,631,627 | 56.2% | — |
| 2004 | 315,761 | 3,164,557 | 48.7% | — |
| 2003 | 377,432 | 3,865,281 | 58.4% | — |
| 2002 | 239,578 | 2,437,227 | 37.1% | — |
| 2001 | 227,649 | 2,352,297 | 35.2% | — |
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)