- Combustion
- Operating
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Map
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Faulkton: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Faulkton
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oil Standby- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1969
- Net generation, 2025
- -161 MWh
- Grid
- 34 kV to NorthWestern Energy - (SD) (SWPP)
- Location
- Faulk County, South Dakota
- Operated by
- NorthWestern Energy - (SD)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- -161
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 23
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 | -161 | 23 | — | — |
| 2024 | -122 | 17 | — | — |
| 2023 | -139 | 229 | — | — |
| 2022 | -132 | 96 | — | — |
| 2021 | -45 | 962 | — | — |
| 2020 | -112 | 442 | — | — |
| 2019 | -142 | 153 | — | — |
| 2018 | -115 | 259 | — | — |
| 2017 | -101 | 601 | — | — |
| 2016 | -71 | 470 | — | — |
| 2015 | -117 | 385 | — | — |
| 2014 | -45 | 1,257 | — | — |
| 2013 | -92 | 692 | — | — |
| 2012 | -92 | 607 | — | — |
| 2011 | -63 | 1,093 | — | — |
| 2010 | 13 | 1,549 | 0.1% | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | 2,269 | 0.0% | — |
| 2005 | -14 | 754 | — | — |
| 2004 | -26 | 1,248 | — | — |
| 2003 | 94 | 2,224 | 0.4% | 23,660 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
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.