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Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 44% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1941
- Net generation, 2025
- 74,860 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
- 74,860
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 255,422
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 43.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74,860 | 255,422 | 43.6% | — |
| 2024 | 78,220 | 266,887 | 45.4% | — |
| 2023 | 79,843 | 272,423 | 46.5% | — |
| 2022 | 92,979 | 317,246 | 54.1% | — |
| 2021 | 97,817 | 865,094 | 57.0% | — |
| 2020 | 79,292 | 695,152 | 46.1% | — |
| 2019 | 84,947 | 756,452 | 49.5% | — |
| 2018 | 3,283 | 29,892 | 1.9% | — |
| 2017 | 16,831 | 155,063 | 9.8% | — |
| 2016 | 93,218 | 860,588 | 54.1% | — |
| 2015 | 88,611 | 825,766 | 51.6% | — |
| 2014 | 96,166 | 914,539 | 56.0% | — |
| 2013 | 99,561 | 949,912 | 58.0% | — |
| 2012 | 110,502 | 1,051,536 | 64.2% | — |
| 2011 | 110,800 | 1,076,533 | 64.5% | — |
| 2010 | 98,112 | 957,180 | 57.1% | — |
| 2009 | 98,791 | 964,200 | 57.5% | — |
| 2008 | 105,958 | 1,044,109 | 61.5% | — |
| 2007 | 104,872 | 1,036,556 | 61.1% | — |
| 2006 | 106,707 | 1,058,427 | 62.2% | — |
| 2005 | 95,594 | 955,844 | 55.7% | — |
| 2004 | 101,623 | 1,018,466 | 59.0% | — |
| 2003 | 105,126 | 1,076,595 | 61.2% | — |
| 2002 | 118,461 | 1,205,104 | 69.0% | — |
| 2001 | 110,951 | 1,146,457 | 64.6% | — |
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.
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)