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Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 37% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1968
- Net generation, 2025
- 65,226 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Bonneville Power Administration (BPAT)
- Location
- Linn County, Oregon
- Operated by
- USACE Northwestern DivisionSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 65,226
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 222,551
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 37.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65,226 | 222,551 | 37.2% | — |
| 2024 | 56,878 | 194,324 | 32.4% | — |
| 2023 | 62,425 | 212,993 | 35.6% | — |
| 2022 | 54,211 | 184,969 | 30.9% | — |
| 2021 | 62,790 | 555,316 | 35.8% | — |
| 2020 | 71,579 | 627,533 | 40.7% | — |
| 2019 | 61,271 | 545,619 | 35.0% | — |
| 2018 | 82,985 | 755,495 | 47.4% | — |
| 2017 | 85,913 | 791,517 | 49.0% | — |
| 2016 | 76,100 | 702,555 | 43.3% | — |
| 2015 | 52,574 | 489,937 | 30.0% | — |
| 2014 | 101,649 | 966,683 | 58.0% | — |
| 2013 | 94,904 | 905,479 | 54.2% | — |
| 2012 | 105,159 | 1,000,694 | 59.9% | — |
| 2011 | 79,680 | 774,172 | 45.5% | — |
| 2010 | 73,372 | 715,819 | 41.9% | — |
| 2009 | 68,481 | 668,376 | 39.1% | — |
| 2008 | 80,804 | 796,242 | 46.0% | — |
| 2007 | 53,904 | 532,789 | 30.8% | — |
| 2006 | 87,591 | 868,816 | 50.0% | — |
| 2005 | 79,744 | 797,360 | 45.5% | — |
| 2004 | 106,091 | 1,063,244 | 60.4% | — |
| 2003 | 88,052 | 901,741 | 50.3% | — |
| 2002 | 88,479 | 900,097 | 50.5% | — |
| 2001 | 79,954 | 826,165 | 45.6% | — |
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)