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Hat Creek 2
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 53% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1921
- Net generation, 2025
- 46,047 MWh
- Grid
- 60 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Shasta County, California
- Operated by
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 46,047
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 157,113
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 52.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46,047 | 157,113 | 52.6% | — |
| 2024 | 26,040 | 88,848 | 29.6% | — |
| 2023 | 6,946 | 23,700 | 7.9% | — |
| 2022 | 21,458 | 73,215 | 24.5% | — |
| 2021 | 21,026 | 185,953 | 24.0% | — |
| 2020 | 33,581 | 294,406 | 38.2% | — |
| 2019 | 43,089 | 383,709 | 49.2% | — |
| 2018 | 41,999 | 382,359 | 47.9% | — |
| 2017 | 41,712 | 384,291 | 47.6% | — |
| 2016 | 32,645 | 301,379 | 37.2% | — |
| 2015 | 30,899 | 287,949 | 35.3% | — |
| 2014 | 32,216 | 306,375 | 36.8% | — |
| 2013 | 36,412 | 347,406 | 41.6% | — |
| 2012 | 38,652 | 367,811 | 44.0% | — |
| 2011 | 41,386 | 402,106 | 47.2% | — |
| 2010 | 37,605 | 366,875 | 42.9% | — |
| 2009 | 41,802 | 407,988 | 47.7% | — |
| 2008 | 46,029 | 453,568 | 52.4% | — |
| 2007 | 49,483 | 489,090 | 56.5% | — |
| 2006 | 55,376 | 549,276 | 63.2% | — |
| 2005 | 46,484 | 464,794 | 53.1% | — |
| 2004 | 50,973 | 510,851 | 58.0% | — |
| 2003 | 52,418 | 536,813 | 59.8% | — |
| 2002 | 49,551 | 504,082 | 56.6% | — |
| 2001 | 55,655 | 575,083 | 63.5% | — |
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.