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Galactic Wind
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 24% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2012
- Net generation, 2025
- 21,153 MWh
- Grid
- 14 kV to Madison Gas & Electric Co (MISO)
- Location
- Dane County, Wisconsin
- Operated by
- Galactic WindSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 21,153
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 72,174
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 24.4
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21,153 | 72,174 | 24.4% | — |
| 2024 | 22,044 | 75,214 | 25.4% | — |
| 2023 | 20,290 | 69,230 | 23.4% | — |
| 2022 | 23,854 | 81,390 | 27.5% | — |
| 2021 | 20,717 | 183,222 | 23.9% | — |
| 2020 | 21,227 | 186,097 | 24.4% | — |
| 2019 | 21,419 | 190,736 | 24.7% | — |
| 2018 | 19,597 | 178,411 | 22.6% | — |
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)