- Bioenergy
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Bioenergy
- Retired
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GRS Pine Bend
Power plant · Biomass
Key facts
Power plant · Biomassran 6% of 2018 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1996
- Net generation, 2018
- 9,217 MWh
- Location
- Dakota County, Minnesota
- Operated by
- Pine Bend LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2018
- 9,217
MWh - Fuel burned, 2018
- 188,005
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2018
- 6.3
% - Heat rate, 2018
- 20,398
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 9,217 | 188,005 | 6.3% | 20,398 |
| 2017 | 27,847 | 543,594 | 19.1% | 19,521 |
| 2016 | 34,976 | 728,171 | 24.0% | 20,819 |
| 2015 | 30,331 | 645,171 | 20.9% | 21,271 |
| 2014 | 35,023 | 706,088 | 24.1% | 20,161 |
| 2013 | 48,231 | 677,109 | 33.2% | 14,039 |
| 2012 | 32,886 | 674,631 | 22.6% | 20,514 |
| 2011 | 42,345 | 688,346 | 29.1% | 16,256 |
| 2010 | 55,514 | 762,745 | 38.2% | 13,740 |
| 2009 | 67,066 | 703,816 | 46.1% | 10,494 |
| 2008 | 55,075 | 385,054 | 37.8% | 6,991 |
| 2007 | 64,054 | 805,357 | 44.0% | 12,573 |
| 2006 | 58,791 | 800,906 | 40.4% | 13,623 |
| 2005 | 43,518 | 533,781 | 29.9% | 12,266 |
| 2004 | 70,833 | 747,086 | 48.6% | 10,547 |
| 2003 | 75,161 | 850,123 | 51.7% | 11,311 |
| 2002 | 90,545 | 969,671 | 62.3% | 10,709 |
| 2001 | 79,565 | 852,093 | 54.7% | 10,709 |
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.