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Crystal
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 58% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1978
- Net generation, 2025
- 141,252 MWh
- Grid
- 121 kV to WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration (WACM)
- Location
- Montrose County, Colorado
- Operated by
- U S Bureau of ReclamationSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 141,252
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 481,952
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 57.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 141,252 | 481,952 | 57.6% | — |
| 2024 | 144,296 | 492,337 | 58.7% | — |
| 2023 | 122,724 | 434,085 | 50.0% | — |
| 2022 | 111,214 | 379,462 | 45.3% | — |
| 2021 | 133,806 | 1,183,381 | 54.5% | — |
| 2020 | 171,905 | 1,507,089 | 69.9% | — |
| 2019 | 133,569 | 1,189,431 | 54.5% | — |
| 2018 | 180,823 | 1,646,213 | 73.7% | — |
| 2017 | 155,734 | 1,434,777 | 63.5% | — |
| 2016 | 175,780 | 1,622,801 | 71.5% | — |
| 2015 | 133,844 | 1,247,292 | 54.6% | — |
| 2014 | 139,470 | 1,326,360 | 56.9% | — |
| 2013 | 105,407 | 1,005,687 | 43.0% | — |
| 2012 | 121,106 | 1,152,446 | 49.2% | — |
| 2011 | 198,846 | 1,931,989 | 81.1% | — |
| 2010 | 150,971 | 1,472,873 | 61.6% | — |
| 2009 | 170,664 | 1,665,682 | 69.6% | — |
| 2008 | 212,591 | 2,094,873 | 86.4% | — |
| 2007 | 168,239 | 1,662,875 | 68.6% | — |
| 2006 | 151,751 | 1,505,217 | 61.9% | — |
| 2005 | 137,950 | 1,379,362 | 56.2% | — |
| 2004 | 3,816 | 38,244 | 1.6% | — |
| 2003 | 96,103 | 984,191 | 39.2% | — |
| 2002 | 102,163 | 1,039,304 | 41.6% | — |
| 2001 | 148,668 | 1,536,186 | 60.6% | — |
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.