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ONeill
Power plant · Pumped hydro storage
Key facts
Power plant · Pumped hydro storage Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1967
- Net generation, 2025
- -65,854 MWh
- Grid
- 72 kV to WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration (CISO)
- Location
- Merced County, California
- Operated by
- U S Bureau of ReclamationSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- -65,854
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 (8 of 12 months) | -37,512 | 0 | — | — |
| 2025 | -65,854 | 0 | — | — |
| 2024 | -66,881 | 0 | — | — |
| 2023 | -86,926 | 0 | — | — |
| 2022 | -32,972 | 0 | — | — |
| 2021 | -17,821 | 0 | — | — |
| 2020 | -45,652 | 0 | — | — |
| 2019 | -62,469 | 0 | — | — |
| 2018 | -61,489 | 0 | — | — |
| 2017 | -105,768 | 0 | — | — |
| 2016 | -50,859 | 0 | — | — |
| 2015 | -12,192 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014 | -5,735 | 0 | — | — |
| 2013 | -29,413 | 0 | — | — |
| 2012 | 3,752 | 0 | 1.7% | — |
| 2011 | -8,677 | 0 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,624 | 0 | 0.7% | — |
| 2009 | 5,936 | 0 | 2.7% | — |
| 2008 | -1,502 | 0 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5,404 | 0 | 2.5% | — |
| 2006 | 61 | 605 | 0.0% | — |
| 2005 | -31,958 | 280 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5,964 | 60,278 | 2.7% | — |
| 2003 | 2,802 | 28,320 | 1.3% | — |
| 2002 | 6,672 | 780,154 | 3.0% | — |
| 2001 | 5,957 | 635,774 | 2.7% | — |
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.
Sources
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)