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Drop 2 (CA)
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 30% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1953
- Net generation, 2025
- 26,680 MWh
- Grid
- 92 kV to Imperial Irrigation District (IID)
- Location
- Imperial County, California
- Operated by
- Imperial Irrigation DistrictSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 26,680
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 91,113
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 30.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26,680 | 91,113 | 30.5% | — |
| 2024 | 29,465 | 100,534 | 33.5% | — |
| 2023 | 34,782 | 118,676 | 39.7% | — |
| 2022 | 42,390 | 144,633 | 48.4% | — |
| 2021 | 43,014 | 380,415 | 49.1% | — |
| 2020 | 41,630 | 364,971 | 47.4% | — |
| 2019 | 40,000 | 356,201 | 45.7% | — |
| 2018 | 43,434 | 395,423 | 49.6% | — |
| 2017 | 42,917 | 395,393 | 49.0% | — |
| 2016 | 45,727 | 422,153 | 52.1% | — |
| 2015 | 47,745 | 444,935 | 54.5% | — |
| 2014 | 45,567 | 433,340 | 52.0% | — |
| 2013 | 46,499 | 443,648 | 53.1% | — |
| 2012 | 51,654 | 491,538 | 58.8% | — |
| 2011 | 52,373 | 508,856 | 59.8% | — |
| 2010 | 48,146 | 469,714 | 55.0% | — |
| 2009 | 24,732 | 241,384 | 28.2% | — |
| 2008 | 50,358 | 496,229 | 57.3% | — |
| 2007 | 51,445 | 508,481 | 58.7% | — |
| 2006 | 52,234 | 518,108 | 59.6% | — |
| 2005 | 59,963 | 599,570 | 68.5% | — |
| 2004 | 49,992 | 501,020 | 56.9% | — |
| 2003 | 53,649 | 549,419 | 61.2% | — |
| 2002 | 55,589 | 565,507 | 63.5% | — |
| 2001 | 56,129 | 579,981 | 64.1% | — |
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
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- 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)