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Spring Gap
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 22% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1921
- Net generation, 2025
- 11,621 MWh
- Grid
- 70 kV to Pacific Gas & Electric Co (CISO)
- Location
- Tuolumne County, California
- Operated by
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 11,621
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 39,651
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 22.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11,621 | 39,651 | 22.1% | — |
| 2024 | 25,926 | 88,459 | 49.2% | — |
| 2023 | 31,061 | 105,979 | 59.1% | — |
| 2022 | 33,477 | 114,225 | 63.7% | — |
| 2021 | 14,213 | 125,700 | 27.0% | — |
| 2020 | 20,166 | 176,794 | 38.3% | — |
| 2019 | 34,671 | 308,745 | 66.0% | — |
| 2018 | 29,980 | 272,937 | 57.0% | — |
| 2017 | 29,694 | 273,571 | 56.5% | — |
| 2016 | 34,819 | 321,449 | 66.1% | — |
| 2015 | 25,131 | 234,196 | 47.8% | — |
| 2014 | 15,316 | 145,656 | 29.1% | — |
| 2013 | 30,591 | 291,870 | 58.2% | — |
| 2012 | 20,594 | 195,974 | 39.1% | — |
| 2011 | 40,696 | 395,402 | 77.4% | — |
| 2010 | 41,658 | 406,414 | 79.3% | — |
| 2009 | 38,573 | 376,473 | 73.4% | — |
| 2008 | 33,741 | 332,484 | 64.0% | — |
| 2007 | 24,074 | 237,946 | 45.8% | — |
| 2006 | 42,921 | 425,732 | 81.7% | — |
| 2005 | 44,150 | 441,456 | 84.0% | — |
| 2004 | 37,513 | 375,955 | 71.2% | — |
| 2003 | 42,610 | 436,369 | 81.1% | — |
| 2002 | 35,975 | 365,974 | 68.5% | — |
| 2001 | 33,980 | 351,115 | 64.6% | — |
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
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)