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Appleton
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 63% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1916
- Net generation, 2025
- 12,233 MWh
- Grid
- 34 kV to Wisconsin Electric Power Co (MISO)
- Location
- Outagamie County, Wisconsin
- Operated by
- Wisconsin Electric Power CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 12,233
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 41,739
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 63.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12,233 | 41,739 | 63.5% | — |
| 2024 | 6,422 | 21,911 | 33.2% | — |
| 2023 | 5,539 | 18,898 | 28.7% | — |
| 2022 | 5,450 | 18,595 | 28.3% | — |
| 2021 | 6,864 | 60,704 | 35.6% | — |
| 2020 | 10,748 | 94,229 | 55.6% | — |
| 2019 | 6,820 | 60,732 | 35.4% | — |
| 2018 | 11,630 | 105,880 | 60.4% | — |
| 2017 | 14,389 | 132,567 | 74.7% | — |
| 2016 | 14,759 | 136,254 | 76.4% | — |
| 2015 | 14,062 | 131,046 | 73.0% | — |
| 2014 | 13,697 | 130,257 | 71.1% | — |
| 2013 | 9,321 | 88,932 | 48.4% | — |
| 2012 | 13,236 | 125,953 | 68.5% | — |
| 2011 | 15,324 | 148,888 | 79.5% | — |
| 2010 | 13,129 | 128,087 | 68.1% | — |
| 2009 | 13,466 | 131,428 | 69.9% | — |
| 2008 | 15,107 | 148,864 | 78.2% | — |
| 2007 | 12,318 | 121,752 | 63.9% | — |
| 2006 | 14,391 | 142,745 | 74.7% | — |
| 2005 | 14,214 | 142,126 | 73.8% | — |
| 2004 | 14,467 | 144,988 | 74.9% | — |
| 2003 | 13,787 | 141,193 | 71.5% | — |
| 2002 | 14,145 | 143,897 | 73.4% | — |
| 2001 | 13,211 | 136,509 | 68.5% | — |
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.
Sources
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)