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Salida
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
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,666
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 5,684
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 31.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,666 | 5,684 | 31.7% | — |
| 2024 | 1,019 | 3,477 | 19.3% | — |
| 2023 | 1,126 | 3,842 | 21.4% | — |
| 2022 | 1,580 | 5,391 | 30.1% | — |
| 2021 | 1,595 | 14,105 | 30.3% | — |
| 2020 | 1,707 | 14,966 | 32.4% | — |
| 2019 | 1,012 | 9,013 | 19.2% | — |
| 2018 (7 of 12 months) | 1,956 | 17,809 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2,633 | 24,259 | 50.1% | — |
| 2016 | 2,116 | 19,536 | 40.2% | — |
| 2015 | 623 | 5,805 | 11.8% | — |
| 2014 | 2,152 | 20,467 | 40.9% | — |
| 2013 | 1,592 | 15,188 | 30.3% | — |
| 2012 | 1,457 | 13,865 | 27.6% | — |
| 2011 | 2,163 | 21,015 | 41.1% | — |
| 2010 | 2,188 | 21,347 | 41.6% | — |
| 2009 | 2,197 | 21,442 | 41.8% | — |
| 2008 | 3,978 | 39,198 | 75.5% | — |
| 2007 | 3,924 | 38,784 | 74.7% | — |
| 2006 | 5,415 | 53,711 | 103.0% | — |
| 2005 | 7,672 | 76,712 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5,309 | 53,207 | 100.7% | — |
| 2002 | 1,452 | 14,771 | 27.6% | — |
| 2001 | 2,959 | 30,575 | 56.3% | — |
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.