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Drop 5 (CA)
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 16% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1982
- Net generation, 2025
- 5,638 MWh
- Grid
- 35 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
- 5,638
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 19,257
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 16.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,638 | 19,257 | 16.1% | — |
| 2024 | 6,422 | 21,960 | 18.3% | — |
| 2023 | 9,236 | 31,534 | 26.4% | — |
| 2022 | 13,293 | 45,355 | 37.9% | — |
| 2021 | 11,617 | 102,742 | 33.1% | — |
| 2020 | 11,660 | 102,224 | 33.2% | — |
| 2019 | 10,382 | 92,451 | 29.6% | — |
| 2018 | 11,264 | 102,548 | 32.1% | — |
| 2017 | 12,011 | 110,660 | 34.3% | — |
| 2016 | 13,508 | 124,707 | 38.4% | — |
| 2015 | 12,987 | 121,028 | 37.1% | — |
| 2014 | 11,793 | 112,152 | 33.7% | — |
| 2013 | 15,810 | 150,843 | 45.1% | — |
| 2012 | 18,514 | 176,179 | 52.7% | — |
| 2011 | 12,169 | 118,235 | 34.7% | — |
| 2010 | 13,948 | 136,078 | 39.8% | — |
| 2009 | 16,085 | 156,989 | 45.9% | — |
| 2008 | 14,253 | 140,449 | 40.6% | — |
| 2007 | 14,222 | 140,571 | 40.6% | — |
| 2006 | 16,405 | 162,721 | 46.8% | — |
| 2005 | 13,319 | 133,177 | 38.0% | — |
| 2004 | 15,541 | 155,752 | 44.2% | — |
| 2003 | 14,947 | 153,072 | 42.7% | — |
| 2002 | 13,328 | 135,586 | 38.0% | — |
| 2001 | 16,656 | 172,106 | 47.5% | — |
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.