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Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 1947
Net generation, 2014: 69,294 MWh
Grid: 161 kV to Dairyland Power Coop (MISO)
Location: Buffalo County, Wisconsin
Operated by: Dairyland Power CoopSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Net generation, 2014: 69,294MWh
Fuel burned, 2014: 868,639MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2014: 4.4%
Heat rate, 2014: 12,536Btu/kWh

Capacity factor % of full output, by year

Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year

Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
Year	Net generation (MWh)	Fuel burned (MMBtu)	Capacity factor	Heat rate (Btu/kWh)
2014	69,294	868,639	4.4%	12,536
2013	74,588	994,550	4.7%	13,334
2012	70,757	990,379	4.5%	13,997
2011	106,636	1,524,861	6.7%	14,300
2010	304,630	3,648,767	19.2%	11,978
2009	438,237	5,062,539	27.6%	11,552
2008	886,166	10,818,984	55.7%	12,209
2007	1,076,152	12,591,502	67.9%	11,700
2006	1,100,610	12,812,096	69.4%	11,641
2005	943,933	10,646,279	59.5%	11,279
2004	952,585	10,957,857	59.9%	11,503
2003	894,291	10,643,468	56.4%	11,902
2002	690,029	8,144,240	43.5%	11,803
2001	592,357	6,245,697	37.4%	10,544

How these are worked out

Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.

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Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

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EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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