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Oak Grove

Hydro power plant · Clackamas County, Oregon · not currently in service

Nameplate capacity
51 MW
Rank in Oregon
#57
of 301 plants
In service since
1931
March 1931

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Portland General Electric Co
County
Clackamas County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.27%
Rank among hydro plants in Oregon
#13 of 63
EIA plant code
6505

Generating units

Individual generating units at Oak Grove
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric26 MW22 MW2024Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next calendar year
2Conventional Hydroelectric26 MW22 MW1931Out 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 51 MW solar plant and a 51 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