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Short Mountain

Other power plant · Lane County, Oregon

Nameplate capacity
3.2 MW
Rank in Oregon
#185
of 301 plants
In service since
1992
February 1992

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Landfill Gas
Operator
Emerald People's Utility Dist
County
Lane County
Generating units
4
Share of state capacity
0.02%
Rank among other plants in Oregon
#19 of 24
EIA plant code
7413

Generating units

Individual generating units at Short Mountain
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Landfill Gas0.8 MW0.8 MW1992Operating
2Landfill Gas0.8 MW0.8 MW1992Operating
3Landfill Gas0.8 MW0.8 MW1993Operating
4Landfill Gas0.8 MW0.8 MW1993Operating

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 3.2 MW solar plant and a 3.2 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