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Upper Dawson
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 23% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1983
- Net generation, 2025
- 8,906 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to Turlock Irrigation District (TIDC)
- Location
- Tuolumne County, California
- Operated by
- Turlock Irrigation DistrictSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 8,906
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 30,424
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 23.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8,906 | 30,424 | 23.1% | — |
| 2024 | 10,692 | 36,496 | 27.7% | — |
| 2023 | 11,519 | 39,316 | 29.9% | — |
| 2022 | 6,370 | 21,734 | 16.5% | — |
| 2021 | 7,331 | 64,836 | 19.0% | — |
| 2020 | 8,290 | 72,678 | 21.4% | — |
| 2019 | 10,343 | 92,104 | 26.8% | — |
| 2018 | 11,126 | 101,290 | 28.9% | — |
| 2017 | 10,768 | 99,207 | 27.9% | — |
| 2016 | 7,654 | 70,662 | 19.8% | — |
| 2015 | 6,093 | 56,783 | 15.8% | — |
| 2014 | 6,860 | 65,238 | 17.8% | — |
| 2013 | 10,147 | 96,814 | 26.3% | — |
| 2012 | 10,022 | 95,370 | 25.9% | — |
| 2011 | 11,882 | 115,446 | 30.8% | — |
| 2010 | 12,179 | 118,818 | 31.6% | — |
| 2009 | 9,862 | 96,254 | 25.6% | — |
| 2008 | 9,407 | 92,696 | 24.3% | — |
| 2007 | 10,988 | 108,604 | 28.5% | — |
| 2006 | 11,314 | 112,265 | 29.3% | — |
| 2005 | 12,240 | 122,408 | 31.8% | — |
| 2004 | 11,856 | 118,821 | 30.7% | — |
| 2003 | 10,307 | 105,554 | 26.7% | — |
| 2002 | 10,887 | 110,753 | 28.2% | — |
| 2001 | 10,968 | 113,332 | 28.5% | — |
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)