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Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 5% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1986
- Net generation, 2025
- 6,042 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Placer County, California
- Operated by
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 6,042
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 20,614
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 5.4
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,042 | 20,614 | 5.4% | — |
| 2024 | 7,485 | 25,539 | 6.7% | — |
| 2023 | 17,253 | 58,868 | 15.5% | — |
| 2022 | 9,777 | 33,360 | 8.8% | — |
| 2021 | 5,760 | 50,943 | 5.2% | — |
| 2020 | 7,372 | 64,631 | 6.6% | — |
| 2019 | 21,393 | 190,505 | 19.2% | — |
| 2018 | 10,963 | 99,807 | 9.8% | — |
| 2017 | 14,305 | 131,792 | 12.9% | — |
| 2016 | 16,068 | 148,340 | 14.4% | — |
| 2015 | 10,112 | 94,233 | 9.1% | — |
| 2014 | 7,369 | 70,080 | 6.6% | — |
| 2013 | 13,801 | 131,675 | 12.4% | — |
| 2012 | 9,008 | 85,721 | 8.1% | — |
| 2011 | 19,398 | 188,470 | 17.4% | — |
| 2010 | 32,340 | 315,508 | 29.1% | — |
| 2009 | 21,839 | 213,149 | 19.6% | — |
| 2008 | 17,731 | 174,722 | 15.9% | — |
| 2007 | 24,252 | 239,705 | 21.8% | — |
| 2006 | 37,032 | 367,341 | 33.3% | — |
| 2005 | 36,338 | 363,344 | 32.7% | — |
| 2004 | 32,615 | 326,868 | 29.2% | — |
| 2003 | 35,584 | 364,416 | 32.0% | — |
| 2002 | 36,497 | 371,284 | 32.8% | — |
| 2001 | 21,055 | 217,561 | 18.9% | — |
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.