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Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 21% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1997
- Net generation, 2025
- 48,399 MWh
- Grid
- 34 kV to City of Colorado Springs - (CO) (WACM)
- Location
- El Paso County, Colorado
- Operated by
- City of Colorado Springs - (CO)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 48,399
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 165,139
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 20.8
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48,399 | 165,139 | 20.8% | — |
| 2024 | 62,419 | 212,973 | 26.7% | — |
| 2023 | 56,381 | 192,369 | 24.2% | — |
| 2022 | 66,248 | 226,038 | 28.4% | — |
| 2021 | 69,099 | 611,111 | 29.6% | — |
| 2020 | 56,100 | 491,831 | 24.0% | — |
| 2019 | 61,769 | 550,054 | 26.5% | — |
| 2018 | 75,469 | 687,070 | 32.4% | — |
| 2017 | 66,867 | 616,045 | 28.7% | — |
| 2016 | 68,115 | 628,838 | 29.1% | — |
| 2015 | 47,891 | 446,296 | 20.5% | — |
| 2014 | 63,485 | 603,743 | 27.2% | — |
| 2013 | 57,728 | 550,783 | 24.8% | — |
| 2012 | 90,118 | 857,564 | 38.6% | — |
| 2011 | 64,830 | 629,888 | 27.8% | — |
| 2010 | 70,131 | 684,197 | 30.1% | — |
| 2009 | 60,010 | 585,698 | 25.8% | — |
| 2008 | 61,729 | 608,278 | 26.4% | — |
| 2007 | 55,487 | 548,433 | 23.8% | — |
| 2006 | 76,922 | 762,989 | 33.0% | — |
| 2005 | 57,855 | 578,492 | 24.8% | — |
| 2004 | 54,039 | 541,579 | 23.1% | — |
| 2003 | 60,292 | 617,450 | 25.9% | — |
| 2002 | 66,010 | 671,520 | 28.3% | — |
| 2001 | 67,837 | 700,960 | 29.1% | — |
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.