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Low Line Rapids

Hydro power plant · Twin Falls County, Idaho

Nameplate capacity
2.8 MW
Rank in Idaho
#127
of 155 plants
In service since
1990
August 1990

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Lower Lowline LLC
County
Twin Falls County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.04%
Rank among hydro plants in Idaho
#54 of 76
EIA plant code
10808

Generating units

Individual generating units at Low Line Rapids
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GEN1Conventional Hydroelectric2.8 MW2.7 MW1990Operating

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 2.8 MW solar plant and a 2.8 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