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Gopher CSG
Power plant · Solar
Key facts
Power plant · Solarran 18% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2018
- Net generation, 2025
- 8,012 MWh
- Grid
- 34 kV to Northern States Power Co - Minnesota (MISO)
- Location
- Chisago County, Minnesota
- Operated by
- SoCore Energy LLC
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 8,012
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 27,338
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 18.3
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8,012 | 27,338 | 18.3% | — |
| 2024 | 8,292 | 28,291 | 18.9% | — |
| 2023 | 7,593 | 25,908 | 17.3% | — |
| 2022 | 7,952 | 27,131 | 18.2% | — |
| 2021 | 8,661 | 76,597 | 19.8% | — |
| 2020 | 8,514 | 74,642 | 19.4% | — |
| 2019 | 7,051 | 62,789 | 16.1% | — |
| 2018 | 7,300 | 66,459 | 16.7% | — |
| 2017 | 211 | 1,945 | 0.5% | — |
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)