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Merced Falls
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 28% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Net generation, 2025
- 8,355 MWh
- Grid
- 70 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Merced County, California
- Operated by
- Merced Irrigation DistrictSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 8,355
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 28,507
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 28.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8,355 | 28,507 | 28.1% | — |
| 2024 | 9,352 | 31,908 | 31.3% | — |
| 2023 | 11,694 | 39,900 | 39.3% | — |
| 2022 | 6,386 | 21,789 | 21.4% | — |
| 2021 | 6,349 | 56,151 | 21.3% | — |
| 2020 | 7,116 | 62,385 | 23.8% | — |
| 2019 | 12,524 | 111,526 | 42.0% | — |
| 2018 | 9,677 | 88,101 | 32.5% | — |
| 2017 | 13,181 | 121,436 | 44.3% | — |
| 2016 | 7,997 | 73,828 | 26.8% | — |
| 2015 | -78 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014 | 4,334 | 41,218 | 14.5% | — |
| 2013 | 7,141 | 68,132 | 24.0% | — |
| 2012 | 10,249 | 97,529 | 34.3% | — |
| 2011 | 16,720 | 162,451 | 56.1% | — |
| 2010 | 12,484 | 121,794 | 41.9% | — |
| 2009 | 10,890 | 106,288 | 36.6% | — |
| 2008 | 8,926 | 87,959 | 29.9% | — |
| 2007 | 11,386 | 112,539 | 38.2% | — |
| 2006 | 14,337 | 142,328 | 48.1% | — |
| 2005 | 14,094 | 140,926 | 47.3% | — |
| 2004 | 11,486 | 115,113 | 38.5% | — |
| 2003 | 11,314 | 115,867 | 38.0% | — |
| 2002 | 10,766 | 109,523 | 36.1% | — |
| 2001 | 12,034 | 124,347 | 40.4% | — |
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.