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Jordanelle Dam Hydroelectric Project

Hydro power plant · Wasatch County, Utah

Nameplate capacity
13 MW
Rank in Utah
#68
of 131 plants
In service since
2008
July 2008

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Central Utah Water Conservancy District
County
Wasatch County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.11%
Rank among hydro plants in Utah
#3 of 29
EIA plant code
61853

Generating units

Individual generating units at Jordanelle Dam Hydroelectric Project
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GEN 1Conventional Hydroelectric6.5 MW6.5 MW2008Operating
GEN 2Conventional Hydroelectric6.5 MW6.5 MW2008Operating

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 13 MW solar plant and a 13 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 Utah power plants · What Utah actually generates