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Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 31% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1950
- Net generation, 2025
- 123,394 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration (WACM)
- Location
- Larimer County, Colorado
- Operated by
- U S Bureau of ReclamationSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 123,394
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 421,020
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 31.3
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 123,394 | 421,020 | 31.3% | — |
| 2024 | 107,533 | 367,882 | 27.2% | — |
| 2023 | 106,134 | 362,129 | 26.9% | — |
| 2022 | 77,529 | 264,530 | 19.7% | — |
| 2021 | 115,411 | 1,020,695 | 29.3% | — |
| 2020 | 95,921 | 840,939 | 24.3% | — |
| 2019 | 129,522 | 1,153,394 | 32.9% | — |
| 2018 | 125,148 | 1,139,348 | 31.8% | — |
| 2017 | 100,277 | 923,852 | 25.4% | — |
| 2016 | 114,737 | 1,059,953 | 29.0% | — |
| 2015 | 57,328 | 534,239 | 14.5% | — |
| 2014 | 95,294 | 906,244 | 24.2% | — |
| 2013 | 84,165 | 803,877 | 21.3% | — |
| 2012 | 130,760 | 1,244,312 | 33.1% | — |
| 2011 | 118,030 | 1,146,779 | 29.9% | — |
| 2010 | 91,036 | 888,147 | 23.1% | — |
| 2009 | 105,464 | 1,029,326 | 26.8% | — |
| 2008 | 124,538 | 1,227,196 | 31.5% | — |
| 2007 | 129,648 | 1,281,441 | 32.9% | — |
| 2006 | 119,858 | 1,190,052 | 30.4% | — |
| 2005 | 55,364 | 554,105 | 14.0% | — |
| 2004 | 100,271 | 1,004,916 | 25.4% | — |
| 2003 | 76,986 | 788,414 | 19.5% | — |
| 2002 | 106,937 | 1,087,870 | 27.1% | — |
| 2001 | 108,729 | 1,123,497 | 27.6% | — |
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
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)