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Highgate Falls
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 32% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1923
- Net generation, 2025
- 32,084 MWh
- Grid
- 12 kV to Village of Swanton - (VT) (ISNE)
- Location
- Franklin County, Vermont
- Operated by
- Village of Swanton - (VT)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 32,084
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 109,472
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 31.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32,084 | 109,472 | 31.6% | — |
| 2024 | 46,553 | 158,838 | 45.7% | — |
| 2023 | 49,781 | 169,854 | 49.0% | — |
| 2022 | 47,990 | 163,740 | 47.2% | — |
| 2021 | 29,409 | 260,094 | 28.9% | — |
| 2020 | 40,775 | 357,475 | 40.0% | — |
| 2019 | 49,655 | 442,179 | 48.9% | — |
| 2018 | 33,263 | 302,826 | 32.7% | — |
| 2017 | 39,206 | 361,205 | 38.6% | — |
| 2016 | 41,302 | 381,300 | 40.5% | — |
| 2015 | 41,029 | 382,350 | 40.4% | — |
| 2014 | 41,783 | 397,357 | 41.1% | — |
| 2013 | 43,960 | 419,423 | 43.3% | — |
| 2012 | 40,941 | 389,594 | 40.2% | — |
| 2011 | 50,999 | 495,505 | 50.2% | — |
| 2010 | 51,957 | 506,892 | 51.1% | — |
| 2009 | 48,580 | 474,140 | 47.8% | — |
| 2008 | 52,392 | 516,271 | 51.4% | — |
| 2007 | 46,581 | 460,407 | 45.8% | — |
| 2006 | 58,563 | 580,889 | 57.6% | — |
| 2005 | 47,088 | 470,833 | 46.3% | — |
| 2004 | 49,563 | 496,720 | 48.6% | — |
| 2003 | 42,918 | 439,523 | 42.2% | — |
| 2002 | 50,807 | 516,860 | 50.0% | — |
| 2001 | 32,293 | 333,684 | 31.8% | — |
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.