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Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 20% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1979
- Net generation, 2025
- 11,468 MWh
- Grid
- 60 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Tehama County, California
- Operated by
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 11,468
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 39,130
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 19.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11,468 | 39,130 | 19.5% | — |
| 2024 | 13,136 | 44,819 | 22.3% | — |
| 2023 | 17,860 | 60,938 | 30.4% | — |
| 2022 | 17,000 | 58,003 | 29.0% | — |
| 2021 | 16,290 | 144,069 | 27.8% | — |
| 2020 | 11,240 | 98,540 | 19.1% | — |
| 2019 | 24,953 | 222,207 | 42.5% | — |
| 2018 | 25,089 | 228,410 | 42.8% | — |
| 2017 | 14,139 | 130,263 | 24.1% | — |
| 2016 | 20,390 | 188,240 | 34.6% | — |
| 2015 | 19,895 | 185,401 | 33.9% | — |
| 2014 | 30,054 | 285,811 | 51.2% | — |
| 2013 | 38,305 | 365,468 | 65.3% | — |
| 2012 | 40,198 | 382,526 | 68.3% | — |
| 2011 | 49,968 | 485,488 | 85.1% | — |
| 2010 | 17,216 | 167,961 | 29.3% | — |
| 2009 | 42,665 | 416,410 | 72.7% | — |
| 2008 | 43,113 | 424,835 | 73.3% | — |
| 2007 | 48,570 | 480,067 | 82.8% | — |
| 2006 | 51,640 | 512,218 | 88.0% | — |
| 2005 | 50,953 | 509,479 | 86.8% | — |
| 2004 | 53,556 | 536,738 | 91.0% | — |
| 2003 | 56,748 | 581,156 | 96.7% | — |
| 2002 | 47,942 | 487,714 | 81.7% | — |
| 2001 | 50,171 | 518,417 | 85.5% | — |
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.