- Wind & solar
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Wind & solar
- Operating
Aurora County Wind: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Aurora County Wind
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 46% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2018
- Net generation, 2025
- 79,811 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to NorthWestern Energy - (SD) (SWPP)
- Location
- Aurora County, South Dakota
- Operated by
- RWE Americas, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 79,811
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 272,314
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 45.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79,811 | 272,314 | 45.6% | — |
| 2024 | 67,148 | 229,109 | 38.2% | — |
| 2023 | 70,845 | 241,724 | 40.4% | — |
| 2022 | 89,787 | 306,353 | 51.2% | — |
| 2021 | 82,659 | 731,037 | 47.2% | — |
| 2020 | 81,278 | 712,564 | 46.3% | — |
| 2019 | 79,726 | 709,961 | 45.5% | — |
| 2018 (3 of 12 months) | 19,382 | 176,453 | — | — |
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
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)