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New Melones — Power plant · Hydro · U S Bureau of Reclamation
  • Clean firm
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

New Melones

Power plant · Hydro

Key facts

Power plant · Hydroran 10% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1979
Net generation, 2025
270,595 MWh
Grid
230 kV to WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration (BANC)
Location
Tuolumne County, California
Operated by
U S Bureau of ReclamationSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2026

Operations detail

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Technology
Hydro source: “Conventional Hydroelectric”
Age
47 years since 1979
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Gem
Unit ids
G100000603915
Location id
L100000603877
Grid
Nerc region
WECC
Report year
2025
Grid voltage kv
230
Transmission owner
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration
Balancing authority code
BANC
Balancing authority name
Balancing Authority of Northern California
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025923,271
Capacity factor, 20250.103
Net generation (MWh), 2025270,595
Balancing authority codeBANC

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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