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Shasta
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 38% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1944
- Net generation, 2025
- 2,347,743 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration (BANC)
- Location
- Shasta County, California
- Operated by
- U S Bureau of ReclamationSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 2,347,743
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 8,010,500
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 37.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 1,582,253 | 5,398,647 | — | — |
| 2025 | 2,347,743 | 8,010,500 | 37.5% | — |
| 2024 | 2,333,693 | 7,962,559 | 37.2% | — |
| 2023 | 1,739,857 | 5,936,392 | 27.8% | — |
| 2022 | 765,941 | 2,613,391 | 12.2% | — |
| 2021 | 989,277 | 8,749,165 | 15.8% | — |
| 2020 | 1,670,966 | 14,649,360 | 26.6% | — |
| 2019 | 2,293,987 | 20,427,953 | 36.7% | — |
| 2018 | 1,739,164 | 15,833,348 | 27.8% | — |
| 2017 | 2,908,434 | 26,795,402 | 46.5% | — |
| 2016 | 1,748,041 | 16,137,912 | 27.9% | — |
| 2015 | 1,096,894 | 10,221,954 | 17.5% | — |
| 2014 | 1,012,933 | 9,632,994 | 16.2% | — |
| 2013 | 1,794,554 | 17,121,839 | 28.7% | — |
| 2012 | 1,827,639 | 17,391,814 | 29.1% | — |
| 2011 | 2,357,126 | 22,901,836 | 37.7% | — |
| 2010 | 1,840,067 | 17,951,692 | 29.4% | — |
| 2009 | 1,435,030 | 14,005,892 | 22.9% | — |
| 2008 | 1,465,825 | 14,444,239 | 23.4% | — |
| 2007 | 1,914,173 | 18,919,685 | 30.6% | — |
| 2006 | 2,648,326 | 26,268,744 | 42.3% | — |
| 2005 | 1,902,107 | 19,019,168 | 30.4% | — |
| 2004 | 2,082,200 | 20,867,808 | 33.2% | — |
| 2003 | 2,235,461 | 22,893,356 | 35.7% | — |
| 2002 | 1,869,132 | 19,014,680 | 29.9% | — |
| 2001 | 1,644,122 | 16,988,713 | 26.3% | — |
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.
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)