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Fort Randall
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 51% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1954
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,416,685 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV, 115 kV to WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration (SWPP)
- Location
- Charles Mix County, South Dakota
- Operated by
- USACE-OmahaSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 1,416,685
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 4,833,728
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 50.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,416,685 | 4,833,728 | 50.5% | — |
| 2024 | 1,578,831 | 5,386,970 | 56.2% | — |
| 2023 | 1,453,602 | 4,959,689 | 51.9% | — |
| 2022 | 1,442,196 | 4,920,773 | 51.4% | — |
| 2021 | 1,682,083 | 14,876,341 | 60.0% | — |
| 2020 | 2,007,328 | 17,598,244 | 71.4% | — |
| 2019 | 2,201,556 | 19,604,856 | 78.5% | — |
| 2018 | 1,725,069 | 15,705,028 | 61.5% | — |
| 2017 | 1,677,525 | 15,455,039 | 59.8% | — |
| 2016 | 1,403,439 | 12,956,548 | 49.9% | — |
| 2015 | 1,679,132 | 15,647,831 | 59.9% | — |
| 2014 | 1,670,360 | 15,885,124 | 59.6% | — |
| 2013 | 1,418,528 | 13,534,177 | 50.6% | — |
| 2012 | 1,955,739 | 18,610,813 | 69.6% | — |
| 2011 | 1,679,277 | 16,315,856 | 59.9% | — |
| 2010 | 1,799,442 | 17,555,356 | 64.2% | — |
| 2009 | 1,330,501 | 12,985,689 | 47.5% | — |
| 2008 | 914,288 | 9,009,394 | 32.5% | — |
| 2007 | 900,601 | 8,901,540 | 32.1% | — |
| 2006 | 1,220,037 | 12,101,546 | 43.5% | — |
| 2005 | 1,125,958 | 11,258,454 | 40.2% | — |
| 2004 | 1,305,753 | 13,086,257 | 46.5% | — |
| 2003 | 1,495,538 | 15,315,805 | 53.3% | — |
| 2002 | 1,482,719 | 15,083,700 | 52.9% | — |
| 2001 | 1,201,380 | 12,413,860 | 42.9% | — |
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
- GEMGlobal 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)