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Clark (SD): location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Clark (SD)
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oil Standby- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1970
- Net generation, 2025
- -141 MWh
- Grid
- 34 kV to NorthWestern Energy - (SD) (SWPP)
- Location
- Clark County, South Dakota
- Operated by
- NorthWestern Energy - (SD)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- -141
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 0
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- Not stated
- Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | -141 | 0 | — | — |
| 2024 | -124 | 46 | — | — |
| 2023 | -116 | 120 | — | — |
| 2022 | -125 | 64 | — | — |
| 2021 | -39 | 625 | — | — |
| 2020 | -121 | 0 | — | — |
| 2019 | -122 | 36 | — | — |
| 2018 | -118 | 64 | — | — |
| 2017 | -111 | 186 | — | — |
| 2016 | -69 | 93 | — | — |
| 2015 | -118 | 65 | — | — |
| 2014 | -78 | 518 | — | — |
| 2013 | -78 | 279 | — | — |
| 2012 | -68 | 302 | — | — |
| 2011 | -78 | 617 | — | — |
| 2010 | -127 | 239 | — | — |
| 2009 | -58 | 576 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | 954 | 0.0% | — |
| 2007 | 18 | 1,368 | 0.1% | — |
| 2006 | 41 | 2,768 | 0.2% | — |
| 2005 | 18 | 1,426 | 0.1% | — |
| 2004 | -61 | 696 | — | — |
| 2003 (10 of 12 months) | -73 | 52 | — | — |
| 2002 | -25 | 782 | — | — |
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
2 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)