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Upper Molina
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 20% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1962
- Net generation, 2025
- 17,057 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration (WACM)
- Location
- Mesa County, Colorado
- Operated by
- U S Bureau of ReclamationSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 17,057
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 58,200
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 19.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17,057 | 58,200 | 19.7% | — |
| 2024 | 22,686 | 77,405 | 26.1% | — |
| 2023 | 32,001 | 109,188 | 36.9% | — |
| 2022 | 20,855 | 71,158 | 24.1% | — |
| 2021 | 7,450 | 65,888 | 8.6% | — |
| 2020 | 21,247 | 186,273 | 24.4% | — |
| 2019 | 28,388 | 252,795 | 32.7% | — |
| 2018 | 14,406 | 131,151 | 16.6% | — |
| 2017 | 22,859 | 210,601 | 26.4% | — |
| 2016 | 25,913 | 239,229 | 29.8% | — |
| 2015 | 25,206 | 234,894 | 29.1% | — |
| 2014 | 24,430 | 232,329 | 28.2% | — |
| 2013 | 17,221 | 164,304 | 19.9% | — |
| 2012 | 18,797 | 178,871 | 21.6% | — |
| 2011 | 30,923 | 300,448 | 35.7% | — |
| 2010 | 25,543 | 249,198 | 29.4% | — |
| 2009 | 20,345 | 198,567 | 23.5% | — |
| 2008 | 29,947 | 295,098 | 34.4% | — |
| 2007 | 27,961 | 276,368 | 32.2% | — |
| 2006 | 30,348 | 301,022 | 35.0% | — |
| 2005 | 33,989 | 339,856 | 39.2% | — |
| 2004 | 25,606 | 256,623 | 29.4% | — |
| 2003 | 17,752 | 181,798 | 20.5% | — |
| 2002 | 19,865 | 202,087 | 22.9% | — |
| 2001 | 20,652 | 213,397 | 23.8% | — |
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.