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San Emidio

Other power plant · Washoe County, Nevada

Nameplate capacity
12 MW
Rank in Nevada
#92
of 117 plants
In service since
2012
May 2012

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Geothermal
Operator
USG Nevada LLC
County
Washoe County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.06%
Rank among other plants in Nevada
#25 of 29
EIA plant code
57456

Generating units

Individual generating units at San Emidio
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
SE-U1Geothermal12 MW6.0 MW2012Operating

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 12 MW solar plant and a 12 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