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Pit 3
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 53% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1925
- Net generation, 2025
- 374,621 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Shasta County, California
- Operated by
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 374,621
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,278,207
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 53.4
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 374,621 | 1,278,207 | 53.4% | — |
| 2024 | 332,765 | 1,135,395 | 47.3% | — |
| 2023 | 345,448 | 1,178,667 | 49.2% | — |
| 2022 | 112,121 | 382,556 | 16.0% | — |
| 2021 | 188,394 | 1,666,159 | 26.9% | — |
| 2020 | 260,845 | 2,286,828 | 37.1% | — |
| 2019 | 362,321 | 3,226,468 | 51.6% | — |
| 2018 | 257,821 | 2,347,202 | 36.7% | — |
| 2017 | 241,413 | 2,224,138 | 34.4% | — |
| 2016 | 299,634 | 2,766,221 | 42.6% | — |
| 2015 | 237,705 | 2,215,172 | 33.9% | — |
| 2014 | 214,655 | 2,041,368 | 30.6% | — |
| 2013 | 258,625 | 2,467,540 | 36.9% | — |
| 2012 | 254,464 | 2,421,479 | 36.2% | — |
| 2011 | 333,067 | 3,236,078 | 47.5% | — |
| 2010 | 283,586 | 2,766,665 | 40.4% | — |
| 2009 | 290,102 | 2,831,395 | 41.3% | — |
| 2008 | 316,156 | 3,115,402 | 44.9% | — |
| 2007 | 318,508 | 3,148,132 | 45.4% | — |
| 2006 | 416,462 | 4,130,886 | 59.4% | — |
| 2005 | 406,085 | 4,060,444 | 57.9% | — |
| 2004 | 391,971 | 3,928,333 | 55.7% | — |
| 2003 | 405,336 | 4,151,046 | 57.8% | — |
| 2002 | 379,439 | 3,860,033 | 54.1% | — |
| 2001 | 373,407 | 3,858,415 | 53.2% | — |
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
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 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)