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Oxbow (CA)
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
- 23,210
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 79,193
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 43.4
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23,210 | 79,193 | 43.4% | — |
| 2024 | 27,032 | 92,233 | 50.4% | — |
| 2023 | 13,801 | 47,090 | 25.8% | — |
| 2022 | 546 | 1,861 | 1.0% | — |
| 2021 | 8,710 | 77,032 | 16.3% | — |
| 2020 | 17,880 | 156,754 | 33.4% | — |
| 2019 | 36,392 | 324,070 | 68.1% | — |
| 2018 | 26,068 | 237,323 | 48.8% | — |
| 2017 | 19,266 | 177,497 | 36.0% | — |
| 2016 | 19,405 | 179,148 | 36.2% | — |
| 2015 | 8,864 | 82,604 | 16.6% | — |
| 2014 | 14,509 | 137,980 | 27.2% | — |
| 2013 | 16,785 | 160,147 | 31.4% | — |
| 2012 | 25,962 | 247,054 | 48.4% | — |
| 2011 | 36,501 | 354,644 | 68.3% | — |
| 2010 | 31,118 | 303,589 | 58.2% | — |
| 2009 | 26,668 | 260,279 | 49.9% | — |
| 2008 | 15,909 | 156,767 | 29.7% | — |
| 2007 | 15,864 | 156,800 | 29.7% | — |
| 2006 | 35,658 | 353,692 | 66.7% | — |
| 2005 | 35,002 | 349,985 | 65.5% | — |
| 2004 | 28,912 | 289,756 | 54.0% | — |
| 2003 | 32,232 | 330,088 | 60.3% | — |
| 2002 | 22,799 | 231,934 | 42.7% | — |
| 2001 | 18,248 | 188,557 | 34.2% | — |
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.