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Blanchard
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 46% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1925
- Net generation, 2025
- 72,031 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to ALLETE, Inc. (MISO)
- Location
- Morrison County, Minnesota
- Operated by
- ALLETE, Inc.SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 72,031
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 245,771
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 45.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72,031 | 245,771 | 45.7% | — |
| 2024 | 81,834 | 279,217 | 51.8% | — |
| 2023 | 60,690 | 207,073 | 38.5% | — |
| 2022 | 88,245 | 301,091 | 56.0% | — |
| 2021 | 65,590 | 580,077 | 41.6% | — |
| 2020 | 111,019 | 973,304 | 70.2% | — |
| 2019 | 110,353 | 982,692 | 70.0% | — |
| 2018 | 101,217 | 921,480 | 64.2% | — |
| 2017 | 110,122 | 1,014,555 | 69.8% | — |
| 2016 | 114,265 | 1,054,895 | 72.3% | — |
| 2015 | 85,856 | 800,091 | 54.4% | — |
| 2014 | 100,393 | 954,739 | 63.7% | — |
| 2013 | 86,962 | 829,703 | 55.1% | — |
| 2012 | 74,326 | 707,285 | 47.0% | — |
| 2011 | 94,491 | 918,076 | 59.9% | — |
| 2010 | 97,507 | 951,280 | 61.8% | — |
| 2009 | 83,571 | 815,654 | 53.0% | — |
| 2008 | 77,841 | 767,044 | 49.2% | — |
| 2007 | 71,574 | 707,436 | 45.4% | — |
| 2006 | 74,575 | 739,708 | 47.3% | — |
| 2005 | 107,104 | 1,070,933 | 67.9% | — |
| 2004 | 91,526 | 917,274 | 57.9% | — |
| 2003 | 75,061 | 768,700 | 47.6% | — |
| 2002 | 91,694 | 932,803 | 58.1% | — |
| 2001 | 107,429 | 1,110,064 | 68.1% | — |
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.