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Spaulding 1
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 28% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1928
- Net generation, 2025
- 17,437 MWh
- Grid
- 60 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Nevada County, California
- Operated by
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 17,437
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 59,494
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 28.4
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17,437 | 59,494 | 28.4% | — |
| 2024 | 17,590 | 60,018 | 28.6% | — |
| 2023 | 36,563 | 124,754 | 59.6% | — |
| 2022 | 26,846 | 91,599 | 43.8% | — |
| 2021 | 15,234 | 134,730 | 24.8% | — |
| 2020 | 14,160 | 124,140 | 23.0% | — |
| 2019 | 6,648 | 59,201 | 10.8% | — |
| 2018 | 4,496 | 40,932 | 7.3% | — |
| 2017 | 48,076 | 442,926 | 78.4% | — |
| 2016 | 16,756 | 154,691 | 27.3% | — |
| 2015 | 21,925 | 204,319 | 35.8% | — |
| 2014 | 25,046 | 238,189 | 40.8% | — |
| 2013 | 23,859 | 227,639 | 38.9% | — |
| 2012 | 33,874 | 322,345 | 55.1% | — |
| 2011 | 30,120 | 292,645 | 49.1% | — |
| 2010 | 35,122 | 342,649 | 57.3% | — |
| 2009 | 41,185 | 401,966 | 67.2% | — |
| 2008 | 24,825 | 244,626 | 40.4% | — |
| 2007 | 27,902 | 275,782 | 45.5% | — |
| 2006 | 43,366 | 430,147 | 70.7% | — |
| 2005 | 33,167 | 331,637 | 54.1% | — |
| 2004 | 32,138 | 322,087 | 52.3% | — |
| 2003 | 36,827 | 377,145 | 60.1% | — |
| 2002 | 34,750 | 353,512 | 56.7% | — |
| 2001 | 18,950 | 195,810 | 30.9% | — |
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.