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Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 82% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1942
- Net generation, 2025
- 73,398 MWh
- Grid
- 60 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Nevada County, California
- Operated by
- Yuba County Water Agency - (CA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 73,398
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 250,435
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 82.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73,398 | 250,435 | 82.1% | — |
| 2024 | 80,820 | 275,759 | 90.2% | — |
| 2023 | 73,450 | 250,610 | 82.2% | — |
| 2022 | 67,679 | 230,920 | 75.7% | — |
| 2021 | 71,030 | 628,191 | 79.5% | — |
| 2020 | 24,558 | 215,300 | 27.4% | — |
| 2019 | 47,007 | 418,599 | 52.6% | — |
| 2018 | 22,883 | 208,327 | 25.6% | — |
| 2017 | 61,468 | 566,305 | 68.8% | — |
| 2016 | 41,923 | 387,032 | 46.8% | — |
| 2015 | 36,316 | 338,429 | 40.6% | — |
| 2014 | 25,183 | 239,489 | 28.2% | — |
| 2013 | 58,746 | 560,495 | 65.8% | — |
| 2012 | 86,095 | 819,280 | 96.1% | — |
| 2011 | 71,594 | 695,607 | 80.1% | — |
| 2010 | 55,947 | 545,819 | 62.6% | — |
| 2009 | 77,115 | 752,641 | 86.3% | — |
| 2008 | 41,775 | 411,650 | 46.6% | — |
| 2007 | 18,932 | 187,125 | 21.2% | — |
| 2006 | 76,881 | 762,582 | 86.0% | — |
| 2005 | 27,854 | 278,512 | 31.2% | — |
| 2004 | 15,446 | 154,800 | 17.2% | — |
| 2003 | 26,544 | 271,837 | 29.7% | — |
| 2002 | 11,278 | 114,731 | 12.6% | — |
| 2001 | 23,859 | 246,535 | 26.7% | — |
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.