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Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 34% of 2025 Retiring- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1923
- Net generation, 2025
- 36,850 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to Northern States Power Co (MISO)
- Location
- Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
- Operated by
- Northern States Power Co - MinnesotaSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 36,850
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 125,733
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 34.2
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36,850 | 125,733 | 34.2% | — |
| 2024 | 42,378 | 144,594 | 39.2% | — |
| 2023 | 43,132 | 147,167 | 40.0% | — |
| 2022 | 39,409 | 134,463 | 36.6% | — |
| 2021 | 40,346 | 356,820 | 37.4% | — |
| 2020 | 61,511 | 539,266 | 56.9% | — |
| 2019 | 61,029 | 543,463 | 56.6% | — |
| 2018 | 54,210 | 493,528 | 50.3% | — |
| 2017 | 62,992 | 580,345 | 58.5% | — |
| 2016 | 68,884 | 635,937 | 63.8% | — |
| 2015 | 58,664 | 546,691 | 54.4% | — |
| 2014 | 62,189 | 591,418 | 57.7% | — |
| 2013 | 47,304 | 451,328 | 43.9% | — |
| 2012 | 30,412 | 289,402 | 28.1% | — |
| 2011 | 52,107 | 506,273 | 48.4% | — |
| 2010 | 52,610 | 513,264 | 48.8% | — |
| 2009 | 27,399 | 267,415 | 25.4% | — |
| 2008 | 4,258 | 41,958 | 3.9% | — |
| 2007 | 14,561 | 143,922 | 13.5% | — |
| 2006 | 32,430 | 321,672 | 30.1% | — |
| 2005 | 34,960 | 349,565 | 32.5% | — |
| 2004 | 37,785 | 378,681 | 35.0% | — |
| 2003 | 35,938 | 368,041 | 33.4% | — |
| 2002 | 52,935 | 538,508 | 49.1% | — |
| 2001 | 43,304 | 447,460 | 40.2% | — |
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)