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Crosscut

Hydro power plant · Maricopa County, Arizona · not currently in service

Nameplate capacity
3.0 MW
Rank in Arizona
#171
of 200 plants
In service since
1939
July 1939

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Salt River Project
County
Maricopa County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among hydro plants in Arizona
#10 of 11
EIA plant code
143

Generating units

Individual generating units at Crosscut
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
CC5Conventional Hydroelectric3.0 MW3.0 MW1939Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next calendar year

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 3.0 MW solar plant and a 3.0 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Arizona power plants · What Arizona actually generates