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Mapleton Community Solar
Power plant · Solar
Key facts
Power plant · Solarran 20% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2017
- Net generation, 2025
- 5,175 MWh
- Grid
- 12 kV to Northern States Power Co - Minnesota (MISO)
- Location
- Blue Earth County, Minnesota
- Operated by
- Mapleton Community SolarSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 5,175
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 17,655
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 19.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,175 | 17,655 | 19.7% | — |
| 2024 | 4,985 | 17,009 | 18.9% | — |
| 2023 | 5,087 | 17,357 | 19.4% | — |
| 2022 | 4,977 | 16,981 | 18.9% | — |
| 2021 | 4,174 | 36,915 | 15.9% | — |
| 2020 | 5,063 | 44,387 | 19.2% | — |
| 2019 | 4,225 | 37,625 | 16.1% | — |
| 2018 | 5,430 | 49,435 | 20.7% | — |
| 2017 (7 of 12 months) | 3,052 | 28,118 | — | — |
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)