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Luverne — Power plant · Oil · City of Luverne - (MN)Elk Creek Solar — Postponed · Solar · MN · 80 MW · 11.7 km away
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Power plant · Oil

Key facts

Power plant · Oilran 0% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1967
Net generation, 2025
48 MWh
Grid
25 kV to City of Luverne - (MN) (SWPP)
Location
Rock County, Minnesota
Operated by
City of Luverne - (MN)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2002 to 2025
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2002 to 2025
  • Oil

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Technology
Oil source: “Petroleum Liquids”
Age
59 years since 1967
Unused energy
85 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
Heat rate
11,891 Btu/kWh 2025
All 5 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Attributes
AttributeValue
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025571
Capacity factor, 20250.001
Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 202511,890.9
Net generation (MWh), 202548.02
Balancing authority codeSWPP

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusSome generators have retired; the rest of the plant is still in service. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Capacity retired
3.9 MW
Generators retired
3
Capacity still in service
9.7 MW
Generators that retired or are scheduled to retire
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
3Natural Gas Steam Turbine3 MWRetiredJanuary 2002
4APetroleum Liquids0.3 MWRetiredJanuary 2002
4BPetroleum Liquids0.6 MWRetiredSeptember 2004
By technology
Nameplate capacity retired or scheduled to retire, by technology
TechnologyRetiredScheduled to retire
Natural Gas Steam Turbine3 MW
Petroleum Liquids0.9 MW

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
25 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
City of Luverne - (MN)
Balancing authority
Southwest Power Pool
NERC region
MRO
Transmission lines within 25 km (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 Unit 4B scheduled to retire, 0.6 MW · EIA-860M
  • Stated Units 3, 4A scheduled to retire, 3.3 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

4 sources

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

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • LBNLOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 9, 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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within 25 km
Projects within 25 km, nearest first.
ProjectKindAwayMW
Elk Creek Solar Postponed Solar 11.7 km 80

Sources EIA-860M

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026

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