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Detroit

Hydro power plant · Marion County, Oregon

Nameplate capacity
100 MW
Rank in Oregon
#43
of 301 plants
In service since
1953
July 1953

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
USACE Northwestern Division
County
Marion County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.52%
Rank among hydro plants in Oregon
#11 of 63
EIA plant code
3077

Generating units

Individual generating units at Detroit
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric50 MW50 MW1953Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric50 MW50 MW1953Operating

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 100 MW solar plant and a 100 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 Oregon power plants · What Oregon actually generates