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This is a list of power stations in the U.S. state of California that are used for utility-scale electricity generation. This includes baseload, peaking, and energy storage power stations, but does not include large backup generators. As of 2018[update], California had 80 GW of installed generation capacity encompassing more than 1,500 power plants; with 41 GW of natural gas, 26.5 GW of renewable (12 GW solar, 6 GW wind), 12 GW large hydroelectric, and 2.4 GW nuclear.[2]: 1
In 2020, California had a total summer capacity of 78,055 MW through all of its power plants, and a net energy generation of 193,075 GWh.[3] Its electricity production was the third largest in the nation behind Texas and Florida. California ranks first in the nation as a producer of solar, geothermal, and biomass resources.[4] Utility-scale solar photovoltaic and thermal sources together generated 17% of electricity in 2021. Small-scale solar including customer-owned PV panels delivered an additional net 19,828 GWh to California's electrical grid, equal to about half the generation by the state's utility-scale facilities.[5]
The Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County is the largest power station in California with a nameplate capacity of 2,256 MW and an annual generation of 18,214 GWh in 2018.[6] The largest under construction is the Westlands Solar Park in Kings County, which will generate 2,000 MW when completed in 2025.[7][8]
The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) oversees the operation of its member utilities.
This is a list of operational battery storage power stations in California with a nameplate capacity of at least 10 megawatts.
Name | Location | Coordinates | Power (MW) |
Energy storage (MWh) |
Owner | Year | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pomona Energy Storage Facility | Pomona | 34°03′34″N 117°46′27″W | 20 | 80 | AltaGas | 2017 | [9][10] |
Beacon BESS 1 | Kern County | 35°15′25″N 118°01′25″W | 20 | 10 | LADWP | 2018 | [11][12] |
Crimson Energy Storage | Blythe | 33°36′37″N 114°35′47″W | 350 | 1400 | Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar | 2022 | [13][14] |
El Centro BESS | El Centro | 32°48′11″N 115°32′33″W | 30 | 20 | IID | 2016 | [15][16] |
Escondido Energy Storage | Escondido | 33°07′29″N 117°06′53″W | 30 | 120 | SDG&E, AES | 2017 | [17][18] |
Mira Loma Energy Storage Facility | Ontario | 34°00′24″N 117°33′34″W | 20 | 80 | SCE, Tesla Energy | 2017 | [19][20] |
Vista Energy Storage System | Vista | 33°12′15″N 117°15′13″W | 40 | ? | LS Power Group | 2018 | [21][22] |
Gateway Energy Storage | Otay Mesa | 32°34′11″N 116°54′39″W | 250 | 250 | LS Power Group | 2020 | [23] |
Battery Storage Project | Long Beach | ? | ? | 400 | Alamitos Energy Center | 2021 | [24] |
Vistra 500kV | Moss Landing | ? | ? | 100+300 | Moss Landing Power Plant | 2020-21 | [25] |
This is a list of operational biomass and biogas power stations in California with a nameplate capacity of at least 10 megawatts.
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Owner | Type | Year | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Buena Vista Biomass Power | Buena Vista | 38°17′N 120°55′W | 18.5 | Maas Companies | Biomass | 1990s | [26][27] |
Burney Forest Power | Johnson Park | 40°55′N 121°38′W | 11 | North American Energy Services | Biomass | [28] | |
Reworld Stanislaus | Stanislaus County | 37°23′07″N 121°08′28″W | 22.5 | Reworld | Biomass | 1989 | [29] |
Desert View Power | Mecca | 33°35′N 116°05′W | 55.5 | Greenleaf Power | Biomass | 1992 | [30][31] |
Dinuba Energy | Reedley | 36°34′N 119°25′W | 12 | Community Renewable Energy Services | Biomass | 1985 | [26][32] |
Fairhaven Power | Fairhaven | 40°48′N 124°12′W | 18.8 | DG Fairhaven Power | Biomass | 1987 | [26][33] |
Honey Lake | Lassen County | 40°22′N 120°16′W | 32 | Greenleaf Power | Biomass | 1989 | [26] |
Hyperion DGUP | Los Angeles | 33°55′35″N 118°25′49″W | 33 | Los Angeles City Sanitation | Biogas | 2016 | [34][35][36] |
Loyalton Biomass Plant | Loyalton | 39°40′N 120°14′W | 20 | American Renewable Power | Biomass | 1987 | [37][26][38] |
Mount Poso Cogeneration | Kern County | 35°35′N 119°01′W | 45 | DTE Power | Biomass | 1980 | [26][39][40] |
Pacific Ultrapower Chinese Station | Tuolumne County | 37°52′N 120°29′W | 22 | IHI Power Generation Corporation, Jamestown Energy | Biomass | 1986 | [26][41] |
Port of Stockton District Energy Facility | Stockton | 37°56′N 121°20′W | 50 | DTE Power | Biomass | 1988 | [26][42][43] |
Puente Hills Energy Recovery | Los Angeles County | 34°01′25″N 118°01′28″W | 50 | Los Angeles County Sanitation District | Biogas | 1980s | [44] |
Rio Bravo Fresno | Fresno | 36°41′N 119°43′W | 28.7 | IHI Power Generation Corporation | Biomass | 1988 [note 1] | [26][45] |
Rio Bravo Rocklin | Whitney | 38°50′N 121°19′W | 27.3 | Constellation Energy, North American Power Group | Biomass | 1989 | [26][46] |
Southeast Resource Recovery Facility | Long Beach | 33°45′33″N 118°14′25″W | 35.6 | Los Angeles County Sanitation District, Covanta Energy | Incinerator | 1988 | [47][48][49] |
Sunshine Gas Producers | Los Angeles County | 34°20′08″N 118°31′10″W | 23.5 | DTE Power | Biogas | 2014 | [50][51] |
Total Energy Facilities | San Pedro | 33°46′24″N 118°17′01″W | 38.4 | Los Angeles County Sanitation District | Biogas | 1980s | [52][53] |
Wheelabrator Shasta | Anderson | 40°26′N 122°17′W | 55 | Wheelabrator Technologies | Biomass | 1987 | [54][55] |
Woodland | Woodland | 38°41′N 121°44′W | 25 | DTE Power | Biomass | [26][56] | |
The Argus Cogeneration Plant in San Bernardino County is the only coal-fired power station still operating within the state of California. The Intermountain Power Plant (which is 75% owned by LADWP along with five other Los Angeles area cities) in the state of Utah supplied 20% of the electricity consumed by Los Angeles residents in 2017.[57]
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Owner | Type | Year | Ref | Notes |
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Argus Cogeneration Plant | Trona | 35°45′54″N 117°22′56″W | 63 | Searles Valley Minerals | Coal | 1978 | [58][59][60] | |
Intermountain Power Plant | Delta, Utah | 39°30′27″N 112°34′49″W | 1,900 | LADWP (50%), other Los Angeles area cities (25%) | Coal | 1986 | [61] | Plans exist for replacing this plant with an 840-MW natural gas plant, capable of burning up to 30% hydrogen, by 2025. |
This is a list of all operational geothermal power stations in California.
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Owner | Type | Year | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coso | Inyo County | 36°01′00″N 117°47′51″W | 272.2 | Coso Operating Company | Flash steam | 1987 | [62][63] |
The Geysers | Sonoma, Lake County | 38°47′26″N 122°45′21″W | 1,590 | Calpine, NCPA, SVP, USRG | Dry steam | 1960 | [64][65][66] |
Heber | Imperial County | 32°42′52″N 115°31′37″W | 161.5 | Ormat | Binary cycle | 1985 | [67][68] |
Imperial Valley | Imperial County | 33°09′48″N 115°37′00″W | 432.3 | CalEnergy, EnergySource | Dry steam | 1982 | [69][70] |
Mammoth | Mono County | 37°38′44″N 118°54′42″W | 40 | Ormat | Binary cycle | 1984 | [71][72][73][74] |
North Brawley | Imperial County | 33°00′52″N 115°32′27″W | 64 | Ormat | Binary cycle | 2010 | [75][76] |
Ormesa | Imperial County | 32°46′59″N 115°15′15″W | 101.6 | Ormat | Binary cycle | 1987 | [77][78][79][80] |
Conventional hydroelectric power stations include traditional reservoir and run-of-the-river hydroelectric power stations. The list below includes all conventional hydroelectric power station in the state with a nameplate capacity of at least 50 megawatts.
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is important means of large-scale grid energy storage that helps improve the daily capacity factor of California's electricity generation system. This is a list of all operational pumped-storage power stations in California.
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Owner | Year | Ref |
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Castaic | Los Angeles County | 34°35′15″N 118°39′24″W | 1,500 | CDWR, LADWP | 1973 | [140] |
Helms | Fresno County | 37°02′21″N 118°57′49″W | 1,212 | PG&E | 1984 | [141] |
J.S. Eastwood | Fresno County | 37°08′52″N 119°15′24″W | 200 | SCE | 1987 | [142][143] |
Lake Hodges | San Diego County | 33°03′29″N 117°07′08″W | 42 | SDCWA | 2012 | [144] |
O'Neill | Merced County | 37°05′55″N 121°02′52″W | 25 | USBR | 1967 | [145] |
Thermalito | Thermalito | 39°30′55″N 121°37′45″W | 120 | CDWR | 1968 | [146] |
William R. Gianelli | Merced County | 37°04′07″N 121°04′48″W | 424 | CDWR, USBR | 1968 | [147] |
This is a list of operational natural gas-fired power stations in California with a nameplate capacity of at least 100 megawatts.
The Diablo Canyon Power Plant has been the only nuclear power station in California since the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 2013. Due to the changing dynamics of electricity generation in California, Diablo Canyon is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2025.[297][298] The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (the largest power generator in the United States), which is 27% owned by California power agencies, in the neighboring state of Arizona supplies a significant amount of power to southern California.
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Owner | Type | Year | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Diablo Canyon | San Luis Obispo County | 35°12′39″N 120°51′22″W | 2,256 | PG&E | PWR | 1985 | [6] |
Palo Verde | Tonopah, Arizona | 3,937 | Southern California Edison, SCPPA, LADWP, and others | PWR | 1986-1988 |
This is a list of operational petroleum-fired power stations in California.
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Owner | Fuel | Year | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oakland Power Plant | Oakland | 37°47′48″N 122°16′55″W | 165 | Vistra Energy | Jet fuel | 1980s | [299][300][301] |
Pebbly Beach Generating Station | Avalon | 33°19′59″N 118°18′37″W | 12.7 | SCE | Diesel | [302] | |
List of very large (>100MW) solar photovoltaic power stations in California as of January 1, 2019.
To update and expand this list, search the Energy Information Administration's plant-level data set by visiting the Electricity Data Browser.
Alternatively, view the Solar Industry Association's Major Solar Projects List which is less frequently updated.
This is a list of all operational solar thermal power stations in California.
Station | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Owner | Type | Year | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Genesis Solar Energy Project | Riverside County | 33°39′54″N 114°59′41″W | 250 | NextEra Energy | Parabolic trough | 2014 | |
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility | San Bernardino County | 35.57°N 115.47°W | 392 | BrightSource Energy, NRG Energy, Google | Solar power tower | 2014 | |
Mojave Solar Project | San Bernardino County | 35°00′40″N 117°19′30″W | 280 | Abengoa Solar | Parabolic trough | 2014 | |
Solar Energy Generating Systems | San Bernardino County | 35°01′54″N 117°20′53″W | 354 [note 1] | NextEra Energy | Parabolic trough | 1984 | |
This is a list of all operational wind farms in California.
This is a list of power stations under construction in California.
Name | Location | Coordinates | AC Capacity (MW) |
Type | Completion | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Big Beau Solar and Storage Project | Kern County | 34°54′24″N 118°21′11″W | 128 | Solar farm, Battery storage | 2021 | Includes a 40 MW, 160 MWh of battery storage system. | [347][348] |
Desert Harvest Solar Project | Riverside County | 33°44′22″N 115°24′02″W | 150 | Solar farm | 2020 | [349] | |
Westlands Solar Park | Kings County | 36°10′N 119°56′W | 2,000 | Solar farm | 2025 | Demonstration project completed in June 2016. To be gradually expanded out to 2,000 MW by 2025. | [350] |
Edwards Sanborn | Kern County | 346 | Solar farm, Battery storage | 2022 | Includes 735 MWh of battery storage system. | [351] |
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