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Ivanpah 3 — Power plant · Solar thermal · NRG Energy Services
  • Wind & solar
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Ivanpah 3

Power plant · Solar thermal

Key facts

Power plant · Solar thermalran 20% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2013
Net generation, 2025
237,374 MWh
Grid
115 kV to Southern California Edison Co (CISO)
Location
San Bernardino County, California
Net generation, 2025
237,374MWh
Fuel burned, 2025
2,671,059MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025
20.3%
Heat rate, 2025
11,252Btu/kWh
Capacity factor % of full output, by year
Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
2026 (8 of 12 months)113,8091,295,127—11,380
2025237,3742,671,05920.3%11,252
2024270,5753,121,17823.1%11,535
2023169,9711,879,79014.5%11,060
2022279,0463,068,08723.9%10,995
2021252,2202,568,10721.6%10,182
2020288,6232,887,27324.6%10,004
2019257,5352,571,61922.0%9,986
2018276,3262,803,57623.6%10,146
2017243,7882,538,13820.9%10,411
2016247,7022,629,54021.1%10,616
2015224,1032,436,60119.2%10,873
2014 (10 of 12 months)116,4351,369,596—11,763
2013 (1 of 12 months)00——
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

3 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

Sources

  • 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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