Power Plants Near 96040 — Hat Creek, CA

46 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 96040 (Hat Creek, California). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 40.7677, -121.4637 · County: Shasta

Hydroelectric 81%Biomass 11%Wind 7%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
2.5 mi	Bidwell Ditch Project Hat Creek, CA	Hydroelectric	2 MW	Mega Renewables
2.7 mi	Lost Creek I Burney, CA	Hydroelectric	1 MW	Snow Mountain Hydro Llc
11.9 mi	Hat Creek 1 Burney, CA	Hydroelectric	10 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
14.1 mi	Hat Creek 2 Burney, CA	Hydroelectric	10 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
14.5 mi	Sierra Pacific Burney Facility Burney, CA	Biomass	20 MW	Sierra Pacific Industries
14.9 mi	Burney Creek Burney, CA	Hydroelectric	3 MW	Snow Mountain Hydro Llc
15.5 mi	Burney Forest Products Burney, CA	Biomass	31 MW	Burney Forest Products, A Joint Venture
15.5 mi	Pit 1 Burney, CA	Hydroelectric	69 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
17.3 mi	Hat Creek Bioenergy Burney, CA	Biomass	—	Hat Creek Bioenergy, Llc
18.1 mi	Muck Valley Hydroelectric Na, CA	Hydroelectric	30 MW	Brookfield Renewable Trading And Marketing Lp
18.3 mi	Shasta Solar Farm Fall River Mills, CA	Solar	3 MW	Ignite Solar Holdings Llc
19.9 mi	Hatchet Ridge Wind Project Burney, CA	Wind	101 MW	Pattern Operators Lp
20.7 mi	Britton Powerhouse Burney, CA	Hydroelectric	—	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
21.7 mi	Pit 3 Burney, CA	Hydroelectric	80 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
22.0 mi	Chalk Mountain Powerhouse Big Bend, CA	Hydroelectric	—	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
22.3 mi	Kilarc Whitmore, CA	Hydroelectric	2 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
25.0 mi	Hatchet Creek Project Montgomery Creek, CA	Hydroelectric	7 MW	Mega Renewables
25.2 mi	Pit 4 Big Bend, CA	Hydroelectric	103 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
25.9 mi	Olsen Whitmore, CA	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Olsen Power Partners
26.3 mi	Montgomery Creek Hydro Montgomery Creek, CA	Hydroelectric	3 MW	Central Rivers Power Us, Llc
26.4 mi	Cove Hydroelectric Burney, CA	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Snow Mountain Hydro Llc
26.5 mi	Roaring Creek Water Power Montgomery Creek, CA	Hydroelectric	2 MW	Shasta Hydroelectric Inc
28.1 mi	Pit 7 Montgomery Creek, CA	Hydroelectric	110 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
28.8 mi	Nelson Creek Big Bend, CA	Hydroelectric	1 MW	Nelson Creek Power Inc
29.2 mi	Ponderosa Bailey Creek Manton, CA	Hydroelectric	1 MW	Snow Mountain Hydro Llc
29.7 mi	Pit 6 Montgomery Creek, CA	Hydroelectric	79 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
30.0 mi	Volta 1 Manton, CA	Hydroelectric	9 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
30.2 mi	Volta 2 Manton, CA	Hydroelectric	1 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
30.4 mi	Big Valley Power Llc Bieber, CA	Biomass	9 MW	Big Valley Power (Bvp) Llc
30.6 mi	Bear Creek (Ca) Shingletown, CA	Hydroelectric	3 MW	Central Rivers Power Us, Llc
30.8 mi	Pit 5 Big Bend, CA	Hydroelectric	142 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
30.9 mi	James B Black Big Bend, CA	Hydroelectric	169 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
32.2 mi	Cow Creek Millville, CA	Hydroelectric	1 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
33.7 mi	South Manton, CA	Hydroelectric	7 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
34.1 mi	Collins Pine Project Chester, CA	Biomass	5 MW	Collins Pine Co
36.5 mi	Inskip Manton, CA	Hydroelectric	8 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
39.7 mi	Hamilton Branch Peninsula Village, CA	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
42.7 mi	Coleman Ph Anderson, CA	Hydroelectric	12 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
43.4 mi	Butt Valley Belden, CA	Hydroelectric	40 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
45.6 mi	Shasta College Ph2 Solar Project Redding, CA	Solar	2 MW	Totalenergies Distributed Generation, Llc
48.2 mi	Wheelabrator Lassen Anderson, CA	Natural Gas	—	Wheelabrator Environmental Systems
48.8 mi	Wheelabrator Shasta Anderson, CA	Biomass	55 MW	Shasta Sustainable Resource Management, Inc.
49.3 mi	Sierra Pacific Anderson Facility Anderson, CA	Biomass	—	Sierra Pacific Industries
49.5 mi	Spi Anderson 2 Anderson, CA	Biomass	30 MW	Sierra Pacific Industries
49.9 mi	Caribou 2 Belden, CA	Hydroelectric	118 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
50.0 mi	Caribou 1 Belden, CA	Hydroelectric	74 MW	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

Power generation near this area

There are 46 power plants within 50 miles of Hat Creek, California (ZIP 96040), with a combined 1,367 MW of nameplate capacity. Hydroelectric is the most common fuel type in this area with 34 of the 46 nearby plants. The closest plant is Bidwell Ditch Project at 2.5 miles.

Nameplate capacity is the maximum output a plant can produce under ideal conditions — actual generation depends on fuel availability, demand, and maintenance schedules. Capacity factor (shown on individual plant pages) measures how much of that theoretical maximum a plant actually delivers over a year. Nuclear plants typically run above 90%; solar and wind range from 20–45% depending on location and weather.

All data comes from federal EIA and EPA releases. For a printable version of this proximity search, use the report link below. To explore all plants in California, visit the California state page.

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