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Pit 5
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 54% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1944
- Net generation, 2025
- 670,754 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
- 670,754
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 2,288,614
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 54.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 112,722 | 384,607 | — | — |
| 2025 | 670,754 | 2,288,614 | 54.1% | — |
| 2024 | 411,541 | 1,404,178 | 33.1% | — |
| 2023 | 700,113 | 2,388,787 | 56.4% | — |
| 2022 | 471,431 | 1,608,523 | 38.0% | — |
| 2021 | 465,090 | 4,113,257 | 37.5% | — |
| 2020 | 547,242 | 4,797,671 | 44.0% | — |
| 2019 | 853,787 | 7,602,974 | 68.8% | — |
| 2018 | 612,859 | 5,579,468 | 49.4% | — |
| 2017 | 227,227 | 2,093,442 | 18.3% | — |
| 2016 | 587,622 | 5,424,925 | 47.2% | — |
| 2015 | 442,276 | 4,121,570 | 35.7% | — |
| 2014 | 517,330 | 4,919,809 | 41.7% | — |
| 2013 | 478,997 | 4,570,111 | 38.6% | — |
| 2012 | 494,464 | 4,706,291 | 39.8% | — |
| 2011 | 791,139 | 7,686,708 | 63.8% | — |
| 2010 | 713,130 | 6,957,297 | 57.5% | — |
| 2009 | 690,469 | 6,738,976 | 55.7% | — |
| 2008 | 753,395 | 7,423,954 | 60.6% | — |
| 2007 | 762,513 | 7,536,678 | 61.5% | — |
| 2006 | 981,932 | 9,739,782 | 79.2% | — |
| 2005 | 853,994 | 8,539,086 | 68.8% | — |
| 2004 | 887,498 | 8,894,505 | 71.4% | — |
| 2003 | 899,373 | 9,210,479 | 72.5% | — |
| 2002 | 832,136 | 8,465,320 | 67.1% | — |
| 2001 | 801,460 | 8,281,486 | 64.6% | — |
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)