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Pensacola

Hydro power plant · Mayes County, Oklahoma

Nameplate capacity
130 MW
Rank in Oklahoma
#74
of 147 plants
In service since
1940
August 1940

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Grand River Dam Authority
County
Mayes County
Generating units
7
Share of state capacity
0.36%
Rank among hydro plants in Oklahoma
#2 of 11
EIA plant code
2981

Generating units

Individual generating units at Pensacola
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric22 MW20 MW1940Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric22 MW20 MW1940Operating
3Conventional Hydroelectric22 MW20 MW1940Operating
4Conventional Hydroelectric22 MW20 MW1940Operating
5Conventional Hydroelectric22 MW20 MW1946Operating
6Conventional Hydroelectric22 MW20 MW1946Operating
AConventional Hydroelectric0.5 MW0.5 MW1940Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next calendar year

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 130 MW solar plant and a 130 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 Oklahoma power plants · What Oklahoma actually generates