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Lower Malad
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 88% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1948
- Net generation, 2025
- 104,399 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to Idaho Power Co (IPCO)
- Location
- Gooding County, Idaho
- Operated by
- Idaho Power CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 104,399
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 356,211
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 88.3
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104,399 | 356,211 | 88.3% | — |
| 2024 | 102,002 | 348,032 | 86.0% | — |
| 2023 | 106,771 | 364,302 | 90.3% | — |
| 2022 | 96,853 | 330,463 | 81.9% | — |
| 2021 | 92,940 | 821,961 | 78.6% | — |
| 2020 | 96,986 | 850,276 | 81.8% | — |
| 2019 | 97,659 | 869,653 | 82.6% | — |
| 2018 | 99,335 | 904,345 | 84.0% | — |
| 2017 | 99,846 | 919,881 | 84.4% | — |
| 2016 | 99,957 | 922,804 | 84.3% | — |
| 2015 | 97,931 | 912,619 | 82.8% | — |
| 2014 | 39,714 | 377,679 | 33.6% | — |
| 2013 | 92,642 | 883,897 | 78.3% | — |
| 2012 | 105,900 | 1,007,743 | 89.3% | — |
| 2011 | 110,936 | 1,077,853 | 93.8% | — |
| 2010 | 106,970 | 1,043,599 | 90.5% | — |
| 2009 | 105,080 | 1,025,581 | 88.9% | — |
| 2008 | 103,055 | 1,015,503 | 86.9% | — |
| 2007 | 104,582 | 1,033,689 | 88.4% | — |
| 2006 | 112,414 | 1,115,034 | 95.1% | — |
| 2005 | 101,119 | 1,011,089 | 85.5% | — |
| 2004 | 100,908 | 1,011,300 | 85.1% | — |
| 2003 | 101,984 | 1,044,418 | 86.2% | — |
| 2002 | 106,304 | 1,081,431 | 89.9% | — |
| 2001 | 110,537 | 1,142,179 | 93.5% | — |
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.