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Bay Front — Power plant · Biomass · Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
  • Bioenergy
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Bay Front

Power plant · Biomass

Key facts

Power plant · Biomassran 43% of 2025 Retiring
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1952
Net generation, 2025
176,941 MWh
Grid
88 kV to Northern States Power Co (MISO)
Location
Ashland County, Wisconsin

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2025
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2025
  • Gas
  • Coal
  • Oil
  • Biomass and waste

Operations detail

Details

Who’s behind it

Owner
Xcel Energy

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Technology
Biomass source: “Wood/Wood Waste Biomass”
Age
74 years since 1952
Heat rate
15,931 Btu/kWh 2025
All 7 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Gem
Parents
Name
Xcel Energy Inc
Share pct
100
Gem entity id
E100000001329
Unit ids
G100001054285, G100001094002
Location id
L100001047650
Eia plant ids
3982
EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP)
EPA FRS ID
110000422846
Subparts reported
C, D
NAICS code
221112
Subpart PP (CO2 supply)
No
Subpart RR (geologic sequestration)
No
Subpart UU (CO2 injection)
No
Reporting year
2023
GHGRP facility ID
1000978
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 20252,818,912
Capacity factor, 20250.428
Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 202515,931.4
Net generation (MWh), 2025176,941.0
Balancing authority codeMISO

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusAt least half of the plant's in-service nameplate capacity is scheduled to retire, on dates its owner has reported to EIA. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Capacity retired
20 MW
Generators retired
1
Next scheduled retirement
December 2034
Capacity scheduled to retire
47.2 MW
Generators scheduled to retire
2
Share of in-service capacity scheduled
100%
Capacity still in service
47.2 MW
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
4Wood/Wood Waste Biomass20 MWRetiredMay 2019
5Wood/Wood Waste Biomass20 MWScheduled to retireDecember 2034
6Wood/Wood Waste Biomass27.2 MWScheduled to retireDecember 2034

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
88 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
Northern States Power Co
Balancing authority
Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc..
NERC region
MRO
Transmission lines within 15 mi (1)
Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Ownership

2 companies2
CompanyRoleShareAs ofSource
Northern States Power Co - Minnesota Operator EIA-860M
Xcel Energy Owner 100.0% Dec 31, 2023 EPA GHGRP

Timeline

  • Stated Units 5, 6 scheduled to retire, 47.2 MW · EIA-860M
  • Stated Unit 4 scheduled to retire, 20 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

6 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

Sources

  • 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.
  • LBNLOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 9, 2026Yin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
  • EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
  • EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

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