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Spring Creek
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 24% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1964
- Net generation, 2025
- 385,224 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
- 385,224
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,314,383
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 24.4
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 312,507 | 1,066,274 | — | — |
| 2025 | 385,224 | 1,314,383 | 24.4% | — |
| 2024 | 367,926 | 1,255,364 | 23.3% | — |
| 2023 | 204,328 | 697,168 | 13.0% | — |
| 2022 | 31,248 | 106,942 | 2.0% | — |
| 2021 | 264,456 | 2,338,848 | 16.8% | — |
| 2020 | 366,539 | 3,213,447 | 23.2% | — |
| 2019 | 374,420 | 3,334,210 | 23.8% | — |
| 2018 | 129,101 | 1,175,847 | 8.2% | — |
| 2017 | 417,597 | 3,847,320 | 26.5% | — |
| 2016 | 193,724 | 1,788,459 | 12.2% | — |
| 2015 | 200,467 | 1,868,460 | 12.7% | — |
| 2014 | 283,446 | 2,696,989 | 18.0% | — |
| 2013 | 352,401 | 3,363,231 | 22.4% | — |
| 2012 | 324,716 | 3,089,997 | 20.5% | — |
| 2011 | 408,615 | 3,970,104 | 25.9% | — |
| 2010 | 323,355 | 3,154,650 | 20.5% | — |
| 2009 | 220,037 | 2,147,561 | 14.0% | — |
| 2008 | 305,925 | 3,014,585 | 19.4% | — |
| 2007 | 271,583 | 2,684,325 | 17.2% | — |
| 2006 | 822,234 | 8,155,738 | 52.1% | — |
| 2005 | 344,368 | 3,443,336 | 21.8% | — |
| 2004 | 562,699 | 5,639,369 | 35.6% | — |
| 2003 | 576,591 | 5,904,868 | 36.6% | — |
| 2002 | 382,714 | 3,893,350 | 24.3% | — |
| 2001 | 452,124 | 4,671,797 | 28.7% | — |
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)