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Pit 6
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 38% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1965
- Net generation, 2025
- 262,476 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
- 262,476
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 895,569
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 37.8
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 262,476 | 895,569 | 37.8% | — |
| 2024 | 242,296 | 826,715 | 34.8% | — |
| 2023 | 256,093 | 873,788 | 36.9% | — |
| 2022 | 170,647 | 582,249 | 24.6% | — |
| 2021 | 229,588 | 2,030,476 | 33.1% | — |
| 2020 | 195,137 | 1,710,765 | 28.1% | — |
| 2019 | 334,992 | 2,983,103 | 48.3% | — |
| 2018 | 268,511 | 2,444,524 | 38.7% | — |
| 2017 | 325,115 | 2,995,283 | 46.9% | — |
| 2016 | 313,589 | 2,895,054 | 45.1% | — |
| 2015 | 199,848 | 1,862,383 | 28.8% | — |
| 2014 | 278,465 | 2,648,201 | 40.1% | — |
| 2013 | 273,255 | 2,607,126 | 39.4% | — |
| 2012 | 296,442 | 2,820,943 | 42.6% | — |
| 2011 | 381,504 | 3,706,693 | 55.0% | — |
| 2010 | 334,962 | 3,267,889 | 48.3% | — |
| 2009 | 299,249 | 2,920,668 | 43.1% | — |
| 2008 | 268,560 | 2,646,391 | 38.6% | — |
| 2007 | 292,074 | 2,886,859 | 42.1% | — |
| 2006 | 462,751 | 4,590,026 | 66.7% | — |
| 2005 | 371,284 | 3,712,469 | 53.5% | — |
| 2004 | 354,439 | 3,552,188 | 50.9% | — |
| 2003 | 389,568 | 3,989,566 | 56.1% | — |
| 2002 | 343,847 | 3,497,956 | 49.6% | — |
| 2001 | 326,760 | 3,376,411 | 47.1% | — |
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
- GEMGlobal 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)