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Barron
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 44% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1923
- Net generation, 2025
- 382 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to Northern States Power Co (MISO)
- Location
- Barron County, Wisconsin
- Operated by
- City of Barron - (WI)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 382
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,302
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 43.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 382 | 1,302 | 43.6% | — |
| 2024 | 342 | 1,167 | 38.9% | — |
| 2023 | 349 | 1,190 | 39.8% | — |
| 2022 | 324 | 1,119 | 37.0% | — |
| 2021 | 347 | 3,093 | 39.6% | 8,914 |
| 2020 | 424 | 3,752 | 48.3% | 8,849 |
| 2019 | 382 | 3,413 | 43.6% | 8,935 |
| 2018 | 280 | 2,566 | 32.0% | 9,164 |
| 2017 | 325 | 3,017 | 37.1% | 9,283 |
| 2016 | 338 | 3,133 | 38.5% | 9,269 |
| 2015 | 296 | 2,758 | 33.8% | — |
| 2014 | 243 | 2,335 | 27.7% | 9,609 |
| 2013 | 205 | 1,955 | 23.4% | — |
| 2012 | 213 | 2,040 | 24.2% | 9,578 |
| 2011 | 222 | 2,163 | 25.3% | 9,743 |
| 2010 | 239 | 2,365 | 27.3% | 9,895 |
| 2009 | 227 | 2,239 | 25.9% | 9,863 |
| 2008 | 257 | 2,584 | 29.3% | 10,054 |
| 2007 | 453 | 4,511 | 51.7% | 9,958 |
| 2006 | 356 | 3,627 | 40.6% | 10,188 |
| 2005 | 645 | 6,656 | 73.6% | 10,319 |
| 2004 | 386 | 3,898 | 43.9% | 10,099 |
| 2003 | 769 | 8,113 | 87.8% | 10,550 |
| 2002 | 584 | 5,992 | 66.7% | 10,260 |
| 2001 | 983 | 10,206 | — | 10,383 |
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.