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Oxbow (CA) — Power plant · Hydro · Placer County Water Agency - (CA)
  • Clean firm
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Power plant · Hydro

Key facts

Power plant · Hydroran 43% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1966
Net generation, 2025
23,210 MWh
Grid
60 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
Location
Placer County, California
Operated by
Placer County Water Agency - (CA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Operations

Net generation, 2025
23,210MWh
Fuel burned, 2025
79,193MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025
43.4%
Heat rate, 2025
Not stated
Capacity factor % of full output, by year
Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
202523,21079,19343.4%—
202427,03292,23350.4%—
202313,80147,09025.8%—
20225461,8611.0%—
20218,71077,03216.3%—
202017,880156,75433.4%—
201936,392324,07068.1%—
201826,068237,32348.8%—
201719,266177,49736.0%—
201619,405179,14836.2%—
20158,86482,60416.6%—
201414,509137,98027.2%—
201316,785160,14731.4%—
201225,962247,05448.4%—
201136,501354,64468.3%—
201031,118303,58958.2%—
200926,668260,27949.9%—
200815,909156,76729.7%—
200715,864156,80029.7%—
200635,658353,69266.7%—
200535,002349,98565.5%—
200428,912289,75654.0%—
200332,232330,08860.3%—
200222,799231,93442.7%—
200118,248188,55734.2%—
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 sources

Sources EIA-860M · EIA

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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