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Pit 7
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 46% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1965
- Net generation, 2025
- 438,712 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
- 438,712
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,496,885
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 45.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 245,475 | 837,562 | — | — |
| 2025 | 438,712 | 1,496,885 | 45.6% | — |
| 2024 | 293,248 | 1,000,561 | 30.4% | — |
| 2023 | 274,702 | 937,285 | 28.6% | — |
| 2022 | 207,624 | 708,414 | 21.6% | — |
| 2021 | 280,981 | 2,484,996 | 29.2% | — |
| 2020 | 314,550 | 2,757,660 | 32.6% | — |
| 2019 | 461,161 | 4,106,639 | 47.9% | — |
| 2018 | 361,008 | 3,286,618 | 37.5% | — |
| 2017 | 464,098 | 4,275,736 | 48.2% | — |
| 2016 | 423,270 | 3,907,629 | 43.9% | — |
| 2015 | 272,312 | 2,537,675 | 28.3% | — |
| 2014 | 303,928 | 2,890,354 | 31.6% | — |
| 2013 | 379,472 | 3,620,544 | 39.5% | — |
| 2012 | 414,594 | 3,945,278 | 43.0% | — |
| 2011 | 528,588 | 5,135,762 | 55.0% | — |
| 2010 | 483,569 | 4,717,699 | 50.3% | — |
| 2009 | 416,867 | 4,068,623 | 43.3% | — |
| 2008 | 397,336 | 3,915,347 | 41.2% | — |
| 2007 | 413,824 | 4,090,236 | 43.0% | — |
| 2006 | 632,940 | 6,278,132 | 65.8% | — |
| 2005 | 525,074 | 5,250,215 | 54.6% | — |
| 2004 | 504,734 | 5,058,444 | 52.3% | — |
| 2003 | 529,588 | 5,423,511 | 55.1% | — |
| 2002 | 474,100 | 4,823,019 | 49.3% | — |
| 2001 | 446,005 | 4,608,570 | 46.4% | — |
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)