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French Meadows: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
French Meadows
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 32% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1966
- Net generation, 2025
- 42,583 MWh
- Location
- Placer County, California
- Operated by
- Placer County Water Agency - (CA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 42,583
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 145,292
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 31.8
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42,583 | 145,292 | 31.8% | — |
| 2024 | 50,835 | 173,450 | 37.8% | — |
| 2023 | 67,365 | 229,849 | 50.3% | — |
| 2022 | 623 | 2,125 | 0.5% | — |
| 2021 | 9,219 | 81,533 | 6.9% | — |
| 2020 | 29,036 | 254,560 | 21.6% | — |
| 2019 | 84,621 | 753,548 | 63.1% | — |
| 2018 | 38,058 | 346,483 | 28.4% | — |
| 2017 | 106,178 | 978,218 | 79.2% | — |
| 2016 | 54,456 | 502,737 | 40.5% | — |
| 2015 | 9,245 | 86,153 | 6.9% | — |
| 2014 | 21,280 | 202,373 | 15.9% | — |
| 2013 | 26,863 | 256,301 | 20.0% | — |
| 2012 | 46,917 | 446,463 | 34.9% | — |
| 2011 | 93,280 | 906,309 | 69.6% | — |
| 2010 | 57,728 | 563,194 | 43.1% | — |
| 2009 | 54,075 | 527,773 | 40.4% | — |
| 2008 | 27,653 | 272,493 | 20.6% | — |
| 2007 | 32,112 | 317,395 | 24.0% | — |
| 2006 | 97,671 | 968,797 | 72.9% | — |
| 2005 | 69,750 | 697,430 | 52.0% | — |
| 2004 | 46,976 | 470,793 | 34.9% | — |
| 2003 | 66,966 | 685,799 | 50.0% | — |
| 2002 | 45,401 | 461,864 | 33.9% | — |
| 2001 | 29,851 | 308,450 | 22.3% | — |
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.