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Lower Salmon — Power plant · Hydro · Idaho Power Co
  • Clean firm
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Lower Salmon

Power plant · Hydro

Key facts

Power plant · Hydroran 37% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1949
Net generation, 2025
196,749 MWh
Grid
138 kV to Idaho Power Co (IPCO)
Location
Gooding County, Idaho
Operated by
Idaho Power CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2025

Operations detail

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Technology
Hydro source: “Conventional Hydroelectric”
Age
77 years since 1949
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Attributes
AttributeValue
Gem
Unit ids
G100001027534
Location id
L100001023329
Grid
Nerc region
WECC
Report year
2025
Grid voltage kv
138
Transmission owner
Idaho Power Co
Balancing authority code
IPCO
Balancing authority name
Idaho Power Company
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025671,308
Capacity factor, 20250.374
Net generation (MWh), 2025196,749
Balancing authority codeIPCO

Timeline

  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

4 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

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)
  • EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

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