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Jaybird
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 34% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1961
- Net generation, 2025
- 484,740 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Sacramento Municipal Util Dist (BANC)
- Location
- El Dorado County, California
- Operated by
- Sacramento Municipal Util DistSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 484,740
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,653,932
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 34.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 295,254 | 1,007,407 | — | — |
| 2025 | 484,740 | 1,653,932 | 34.2% | — |
| 2024 | 419,161 | 1,430,178 | 29.5% | — |
| 2023 | 670,971 | 2,289,353 | 47.4% | — |
| 2022 | 345,635 | 1,179,307 | 24.4% | — |
| 2021 | 184,433 | 1,631,124 | 13.0% | — |
| 2020 | 269,887 | 2,366,100 | 19.0% | — |
| 2019 | 644,020 | 5,734,998 | 45.5% | — |
| 2018 | 394,703 | 3,593,377 | 27.9% | — |
| 2017 | 779,966 | 7,185,827 | 55.1% | — |
| 2016 | 575,860 | 5,316,338 | 40.6% | — |
| 2015 | 165,165 | 1,539,174 | 11.7% | — |
| 2014 | 242,172 | 2,303,055 | 17.1% | — |
| 2013 | 347,008 | 3,310,801 | 24.5% | — |
| 2012 | 446,981 | 4,253,472 | 31.5% | — |
| 2011 | 857,683 | 8,333,249 | 60.6% | — |
| 2010 | 585,707 | 5,714,158 | 41.4% | — |
| 2009 | 453,027 | 4,421,544 | 32.0% | — |
| 2008 | 288,075 | 2,838,691 | 20.3% | — |
| 2007 | 358,229 | 3,540,736 | 25.3% | — |
| 2006 | 847,841 | 8,409,736 | 59.9% | — |
| 2005 | 687,251 | 6,871,823 | 48.5% | — |
| 2004 | 416,183 | 4,170,986 | 29.3% | — |
| 2003 | 492,547 | 5,044,174 | 34.8% | — |
| 2002 | 428,934 | 4,363,546 | 30.3% | — |
| 2001 | 118,497 | 1,224,430 | 8.4% | — |
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 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global 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.
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)