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Parker
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 11% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1982
- Net generation, 2025
- 2,657 MWh
- Grid
- 12 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Merced County, California
- Operated by
- Merced Irrigation DistrictSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 2,657
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 9,065
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 11.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,657 | 9,065 | 11.2% | — |
| 2024 | 5,461 | 18,632 | 23.0% | — |
| 2023 | 3,526 | 12,030 | 14.9% | — |
| 2022 | 3,732 | 12,734 | 15.8% | — |
| 2021 | 4,020 | 35,552 | 17.0% | — |
| 2020 | 5,184 | 45,448 | 21.9% | — |
| 2019 | 4,320 | 38,470 | 18.3% | — |
| 2018 | 5,209 | 47,422 | 22.0% | — |
| 2017 | 3,717 | 34,245 | 15.7% | — |
| 2016 | 4,958 | 45,772 | 20.9% | — |
| 2015 | -19 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014 | 3,047 | 28,977 | 12.9% | — |
| 2013 | 5,597 | 53,403 | 23.7% | — |
| 2012 | 6,667 | 63,444 | 28.1% | — |
| 2011 | 7,898 | 76,737 | 33.4% | — |
| 2010 | 5,276 | 51,472 | 22.3% | — |
| 2009 | 5,762 | 56,234 | 24.4% | — |
| 2008 | 4,536 | 44,698 | 19.1% | — |
| 2007 | 63,124 | 623,918 | — | — |
| 2006 | 6,969 | 69,125 | 29.5% | — |
| 2005 | 6,476 | 64,754 | 27.4% | — |
| 2004 | 2,305 | 23,101 | 9.7% | — |
| 2003 | 6,676 | 68,369 | 28.2% | — |
| 2002 | 6,844 | 69,624 | 28.9% | — |
| 2001 | 6,560 | 67,784 | 27.7% | — |
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.