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Jim Falls — Power plant · Hydro · Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
  • Clean firm
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Power plant · Hydro

Key facts

Power plant · Hydroran 20% of 2025 Retiring
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1988
Net generation, 2025
105,317 MWh
Grid
115 kV to Northern States Power Co (MISO)
Location
Chippewa County, Wisconsin
Operated by
Northern States Power Co - MinnesotaSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2025

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Technology
Hydro source: “Conventional Hydroelectric”
Age
38 years since 1988
All 5 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Attributes
AttributeValue
Gem
Unit ids
G100001027524
Location id
L100001023319
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025359,342
Capacity factor, 20250.201
Net generation (MWh), 2025105,317
Balancing authority codeMISO

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusAt least half of the plant's in-service nameplate capacity is scheduled to retire, on dates its owner has reported to EIA. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Next scheduled retirement
December 2033
Capacity scheduled to retire
59.8 MW
Generators scheduled to retire
3
Share of in-service capacity scheduled
100%
Capacity still in service
59.8 MW
Generators that retired or are scheduled to retire
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
1Conventional Hydroelectric29.6 MWScheduled to retireDecember 2033
2Conventional Hydroelectric29.6 MWScheduled to retireDecember 2033
4Conventional Hydroelectric0.6 MWScheduled to retireDecember 2033

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
115 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
Northern States Power Co
Balancing authority
Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc..
NERC region
MRO
Transmission lines within 15 mi (2)
Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Timeline

  • Stated Units 1, 2, 4 scheduled to retire, 59.8 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

5 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global 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.
  • LBNLOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 13, 2026Yin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
  • EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

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