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Don Pedro

Hydro power plant · Tuolumne County, California

Nameplate capacity
171 MW
Rank in California
#155
of 1,897 plants
In service since
1971
May 1971

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Turlock Irrigation District
County
Tuolumne County
Generating units
4
Share of state capacity
0.16%
Rank among hydro plants in California
#17 of 244
EIA plant code
439

Generating units

Individual generating units at Don Pedro
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric46 MW55 MW1971Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric46 MW55 MW1971Operating
3Conventional Hydroelectric46 MW55 MW1971Operating
4Conventional Hydroelectric34 MW38 MW1989Operating

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 171 MW solar plant and a 171 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 California power plants · What California actually generates