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Cornell
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 23% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1976
- Net generation, 2025
- 69,850 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Northern States Power Co (MISO)
- Location
- Chippewa County, Wisconsin
- Operated by
- Northern States Power Co - MinnesotaSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 69,850
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 238,329
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 22.6
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69,850 | 238,329 | 22.6% | — |
| 2024 | 82,433 | 281,261 | 26.6% | — |
| 2023 | 72,934 | 248,849 | 23.6% | — |
| 2022 | 72,577 | 247,634 | 23.5% | — |
| 2021 | 81,851 | 723,890 | 26.5% | — |
| 2020 | 124,235 | 1,089,169 | 40.1% | — |
| 2019 | 128,587 | 1,145,066 | 41.6% | — |
| 2018 | 98,311 | 895,025 | 31.8% | — |
| 2017 | 115,698 | 1,065,926 | 37.4% | — |
| 2016 | 123,881 | 1,143,670 | 40.0% | — |
| 2015 | 100,706 | 938,478 | 32.6% | — |
| 2014 | 112,985 | 1,074,487 | 36.5% | — |
| 2013 | 89,108 | 850,179 | 28.8% | — |
| 2012 | 57,260 | 544,888 | 18.5% | — |
| 2011 | 90,108 | 875,489 | 29.1% | — |
| 2010 | 98,266 | 958,684 | 31.8% | — |
| 2009 | 43,478 | 424,345 | 14.1% | — |
| 2008 | 54,096 | 533,064 | 17.4% | — |
| 2007 | 54,528 | 538,956 | 17.6% | — |
| 2006 | 56,203 | 557,477 | 18.2% | — |
| 2005 | 65,377 | 653,705 | 21.1% | — |
| 2004 | 74,036 | 741,989 | 23.9% | — |
| 2003 | 67,716 | 693,480 | 21.9% | — |
| 2002 | 103,865 | 1,056,619 | 33.6% | — |
| 2001 | 90,069 | 930,683 | 29.1% | — |
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.
Sources
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global 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.
- 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)