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Drop 3 (CA)
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 19% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1941
- Net generation, 2025
- 15,268 MWh
- Grid
- 92 kV, 34 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
- 15,268
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 52,254
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 18.9
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15,268 | 52,254 | 18.9% | — |
| 2024 | 26,402 | 90,083 | 32.7% | — |
| 2023 | 27,638 | 94,301 | 34.3% | — |
| 2022 | 34,570 | 117,952 | 42.9% | — |
| 2021 | 40,420 | 357,473 | 50.1% | — |
| 2020 | 40,176 | 352,223 | 49.7% | — |
| 2019 | 41,002 | 365,122 | 50.9% | — |
| 2018 | 41,904 | 381,494 | 52.0% | — |
| 2017 | 40,747 | 375,403 | 50.6% | — |
| 2016 | 46,355 | 427,949 | 57.4% | — |
| 2015 | 40,537 | 377,763 | 50.3% | — |
| 2014 | 41,178 | 391,604 | 51.1% | — |
| 2013 | 42,941 | 409,702 | 53.3% | — |
| 2012 | 50,412 | 479,722 | 62.4% | — |
| 2011 | 52,085 | 506,059 | 64.6% | — |
| 2010 | 48,671 | 474,835 | 60.4% | — |
| 2009 | 48,060 | 469,064 | 59.6% | — |
| 2008 | 48,564 | 478,550 | 60.1% | — |
| 2007 | 45,862 | 453,301 | 56.9% | — |
| 2006 | 50,751 | 503,400 | 63.0% | — |
| 2005 | 45,390 | 453,855 | 56.3% | — |
| 2004 | 48,825 | 489,324 | 60.4% | — |
| 2003 | 51,068 | 522,987 | 63.4% | — |
| 2002 | 52,255 | 531,590 | 64.8% | — |
| 2001 | 51,596 | 533,141 | 64.0% | — |
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.