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Fargo Drop

Hydro power plant · Canyon County, Idaho

Nameplate capacity
1.1 MW
Rank in Idaho
#154
of 155 plants
In service since
2013
April 2013

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Boise Project Board of Control
County
Canyon County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.02%
Rank among hydro plants in Idaho
#75 of 76
EIA plant code
58384

Generating units

Individual generating units at Fargo Drop
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GEN1Conventional Hydroelectric1.1 MW1.1 MW2013Operating

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 1.1 MW solar plant and a 1.1 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 Idaho power plants · What Idaho actually generates