Cabin Creek
Hydro power plant · Clear Creek County, Colorado
Nameplate capacity
300 MW
Rank in Colorado
#21
of 326 plants
In service since
1967
June 1967
Details
- Primary fuel
- Hydro
- Technology
- Hydroelectric Pumped Storage
- Operator
- Public Service Co of Colorado
- County
- Clear Creek County
- Generating units
- 2
- Share of state capacity
- 1.31%
- Rank among hydro plants in Colorado
- #1 of 49
- EIA plant code
- 467
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Hydroelectric Pumped Storage | 150 MW | 170 MW | 1967 | Operating |
| B | Hydroelectric Pumped Storage | 150 MW | 170 MW | 1967 | 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 Colorado
| Cedar Creek Wind | Wind | 301 MW |
| Bronco Plains Wind, LLC | Wind | 300 MW |
| Manchief Electric Generating Station | Natural gas | 300 MW |
| Ray D Nixon | Coal | 283 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 300 MW solar plant and a 300 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 Colorado power plants · What Colorado actually generates