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Lahontan

Hydro power plant · Churchill County, Nevada

Nameplate capacity
1.8 MW
Rank in Nevada
#109
of 117 plants
In service since
2011
January 2011

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Truckee-Carson Irrigation District
County
Churchill County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among hydro plants in Nevada
#6 of 6
EIA plant code
6521

Generating units

Individual generating units at Lahontan
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric0.6 MW0.6 MW2011Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric0.6 MW0.6 MW2011Operating
3Conventional Hydroelectric0.6 MW0.6 MW2011Operating

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 1.8 MW solar plant and a 1.8 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 Nevada power plants · What Nevada actually generates