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Red Bluff

Natural gas power plant · Tehama County, California

Nameplate capacity

46 MW

Rank in California

#475

of 1,897 plants

In service since

2001

August 2001

Details

Primary fuel: Natural gas
Technology: Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine
Operator: California Power Holdings LLC
County: Tehama County
Generating units: 16
Share of state capacity: 0.04%
Rank among natural gas plants in California: #144 of 309
EIA plant code: 56184

Generating units

Individual generating units at Red Bluff
Unit	Technology	Nameplate	Summer	Online	Status
IC1	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC10	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC11	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC12	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC13	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC14	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC15	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC16	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC2	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC3	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC4	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC5	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC6	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC7	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC8	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating
IC9	Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine	2.9 MW	2.8 MW	2001	Operating

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

Similarly sized plants in California

Narrows 2	Hydro	47 MW
Elk Hills Cogen	Natural gas	47 MW
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Bear Mountain Limited	Natural gas	46 MW

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 46 MW solar plant and a 46 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