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Salida — Power plant · Hydro · Public Service Co of Colorado
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  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Power plant · Hydro

Key facts

Power plant · Hydroran 32% of 2025 Retiring
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1908
Net generation, 2025
1,666 MWh
Grid
25 kV to Public Service Co of Colorado (PSCO)
Location
Chaffee County, Colorado
Operated by
Public Service Co of ColoradoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2025

Operations detail

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Technology
Hydro source: “Conventional Hydroelectric”
Age
118 years since 1908
All 4 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Attributes
AttributeValue
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 20255,684
Capacity factor, 20250.317
Net generation (MWh), 20251,666
Balancing authority codePSCO

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusAt least half of the plant's in-service nameplate capacity is scheduled to retire, on dates its owner has reported to EIA. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Capacity retired
0.8 MW
Generators retired
1
Next scheduled retirement
December 2027
Capacity scheduled to retire
0.6 MW
Generators scheduled to retire
1
Share of in-service capacity scheduled
100%
Capacity still in service
0.6 MW
Generators that retired or are scheduled to retire
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
1Conventional Hydroelectric0.8 MWRetiredJuly 2018
2Conventional Hydroelectric0.6 MWScheduled to retireDecember 2027

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
25 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
Public Service Co of Colorado
Balancing authority
Public Service Company of Colorado
NERC region
WECC
Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Timeline

  • Stated Unit 2 scheduled to retire, 0.6 MW · EIA-860M
  • Stated Unit 1 scheduled to retire, 0.8 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

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