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Power plant · Biomass Operating

Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 1989
Net generation, 2025: 196,377 MWh
Grid: 60 kV to Lassen Municipal Utility District (CISO)
Location: Lassen County, California
Operated by: HL Power Company

Net generation, 2025: 196,377MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 2,973,707MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 61.9%
Heat rate, 2025: 15,143Btu/kWh

Capacity factor % of full output, by year

Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year

Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
Year	Net generation (MWh)	Fuel burned (MMBtu)	Capacity factor	Heat rate (Btu/kWh)
2025	196,377	2,973,707	61.9%	15,143
2024	204,807	3,139,359	64.4%	15,328
2023	205,097	3,102,822	64.7%	15,129
2022	176,877	2,670,371	55.8%	15,097
2021	186,686	2,599,431	58.9%	13,924
2020	203,163	2,941,911	63.9%	14,480
2019	188,963	2,821,514	59.6%	14,932
2018	191,170	2,663,470	60.3%	13,932
2017	160,916	2,432,521	50.7%	15,117
2016	117,760	2,037,468	37.0%	17,302
2015	194,998	2,846,130	61.5%	14,596
2014	187,290	2,667,699	59.1%	14,244
2013	200,951	3,003,793	63.4%	14,948
2012	198,044	2,957,717	62.3%	14,935
2011	160,285	2,405,500	50.5%	15,008
2010	166,565	2,483,265	52.5%	14,909
2009	169,673	2,538,074	53.5%	14,959
2008	173,672	2,513,395	54.6%	14,472
2007	136,854	2,032,149	43.2%	14,849
2006	145,645	2,200,493	45.9%	15,109
2005	164,896	2,301,855	52.0%	13,959
2004	160,188	2,393,769	50.4%	14,944
2003	230,012	3,377,553	72.5%	14,684
2002	218,624	3,033,006	68.9%	13,873
2001	121,644	1,874,658	38.4%	15,411

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.

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Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

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EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global 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.
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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