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Olsen
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 35% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1990
- Net generation, 2025
- 15,259 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Shasta County, California
- Operated by
- Olsen Power PartnersSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 15,259
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 52,064
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 34.8
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15,259 | 52,064 | 34.8% | — |
| 2024 | 13,521 | 46,133 | 30.8% | — |
| 2023 | 18,448 | 62,946 | 42.1% | — |
| 2022 | 6,126 | 20,899 | 14.0% | — |
| 2021 | 3,358 | 29,699 | 7.7% | — |
| 2020 | 8,905 | 78,069 | 20.3% | — |
| 2019 | 14,168 | 126,165 | 32.4% | — |
| 2018 | 6,106 | 55,590 | 13.9% | — |
| 2017 | 2,541 | 23,410 | 5.8% | — |
| 2016 | 12,003 | 110,811 | 27.3% | — |
| 2015 | 1,314 | 12,245 | 3.0% | — |
| 2014 | 3,881 | 36,909 | 8.9% | — |
| 2013 | 4,961 | 47,333 | 11.3% | — |
| 2012 | 936 | 8,905 | 2.1% | — |
| 2011 | 16,017 | 155,621 | 36.6% | — |
| 2010 | 9,421 | 91,912 | 21.5% | — |
| 2009 | 4,561 | 44,515 | 10.4% | — |
| 2008 | 3,850 | 37,938 | 8.8% | — |
| 2007 | 4,652 | 45,981 | 10.6% | — |
| 2006 | 17,651 | 175,080 | 40.3% | — |
| 2005 | 9,220 | 92,191 | 21.1% | — |
| 2004 | 11,153 | 111,775 | 25.4% | — |
| 2003 | 8,934 | 91,493 | 20.4% | — |
| 2002 | 8,934 | 90,886 | 20.4% | — |
| 2001 | 4,728 | 48,854 | 10.8% | — |
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.