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Beethoven Wind
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 40% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2015
- Net generation, 2025
- 282,269 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to NorthWestern Energy - (SD) (SWPP)
- Location
- Bon Homme County, South Dakota
- Operated by
- NorthWestern Energy - (SD)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 282,269
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 963,100
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 40.3
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 282,269 | 963,100 | 40.3% | — |
| 2024 | 302,584 | 1,032,416 | 43.1% | — |
| 2023 | 274,538 | 936,721 | 39.2% | — |
| 2022 | 333,061 | 1,136,404 | 47.5% | — |
| 2021 | 284,425 | 2,515,454 | 40.6% | — |
| 2020 | 309,749 | 2,715,569 | 44.1% | — |
| 2019 | 283,638 | 2,525,796 | 40.5% | — |
| 2018 | 290,804 | 2,647,482 | 41.5% | — |
| 2017 | 313,372 | 2,887,094 | 44.7% | — |
| 2016 | 327,112 | 3,019,898 | 46.6% | — |
| 2015 (8 of 12 months) | 177,114 | 1,650,526 | — | — |
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)