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Upper Baker
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 36% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1959
- Net generation, 2025
- 332,702 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Puget Sound Energy Inc (PSEI)
- Location
- Whatcom County, Washington
- Operated by
- Puget Sound Energy IncSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 332,702
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,135,180
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 36.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 332,702 | 1,135,180 | 36.2% | — |
| 2024 | 317,831 | 1,084,439 | 34.5% | — |
| 2023 | 270,840 | 924,106 | 29.5% | — |
| 2022 | 268,093 | 914,732 | 29.2% | — |
| 2021 | 370,699 | 3,278,464 | 40.4% | — |
| 2020 | 362,094 | 3,174,477 | 39.3% | — |
| 2019 | 262,946 | 2,341,535 | 28.6% | — |
| 2018 | 333,791 | 3,038,833 | 36.4% | — |
| 2017 | 355,744 | 3,277,469 | 38.8% | — |
| 2016 | 369,105 | 3,407,578 | 40.1% | — |
| 2015 | 278,750 | 2,597,672 | 30.4% | — |
| 2014 | 340,085 | 3,234,210 | 37.0% | — |
| 2013 | 356,554 | 3,401,882 | 38.8% | — |
| 2012 | 349,723 | 3,327,965 | 38.0% | — |
| 2011 | 301,309 | 2,927,519 | 32.8% | — |
| 2010 | 360,505 | 3,517,085 | 39.3% | — |
| 2009 | 337,354 | 3,292,573 | 36.8% | — |
| 2008 | 317,108 | 3,124,782 | 34.4% | — |
| 2007 | 402,800 | 3,981,277 | 43.9% | — |
| 2006 | 338,552 | 3,358,097 | 36.9% | — |
| 2005 | 295,224 | 2,951,945 | 32.2% | — |
| 2004 | 357,968 | 3,587,555 | 38.9% | — |
| 2003 | 331,777 | 3,397,728 | 36.1% | — |
| 2002 | 353,106 | 3,592,147 | 38.5% | — |
| 2001 | 296,812 | 3,066,958 | 32.3% | — |
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)