- Storage
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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Mount Elbert: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Mount Elbert
Power plant · Pumped hydro storage
Key facts
Power plant · Pumped hydro storage Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1981
- Net generation, 2025
- -24,138 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration (WACM)
- Location
- Lake County, Colorado
- Operated by
- U S Bureau of ReclamationSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- -24,138
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 0
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- Not stated
- Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (7 of 12 months) | -5,407 | 0 | — | — |
| 2025 | -24,138 | 0 | — | — |
| 2024 | -4,389 | 0 | — | — |
| 2023 | -14,515 | 0 | — | — |
| 2022 | -71,672 | 0 | — | — |
| 2021 | -31,911 | 0 | — | — |
| 2020 | -47,646 | 0 | — | — |
| 2019 | -47,913 | 0 | — | — |
| 2018 | -95,756 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017 | -87,778 | 0 | — | — |
| 2016 | -80,734 | 0 | — | — |
| 2015 | -101,211 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014 | -52,967 | 0 | — | — |
| 2013 | -134,350 | 0 | — | — |
| 2012 | -98,631 | 0 | — | — |
| 2011 | -93,672 | 0 | — | — |
| 2010 | -92,133 | 0 | — | — |
| 2009 | -29,938 | 0 | — | — |
| 2008 | -114,396 | 0 | — | — |
| 2007 | -90,590 | 0 | — | — |
| 2006 | -91,793 | 0 | — | — |
| 2005 | -94,116 | 0 | — | — |
| 2004 | -109,257 | 0 | — | — |
| 2003 | -110,931 | 7,378 | — | — |
| 2002 | -111,885 | 3,090,970 | — | — |
| 2001 | -85,308 | 4,702,722 | — | — |
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
- GEMGlobal 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)