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Power plant · Waste to energy Retiring

Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 1949
Net generation, 2025: 125,450 MWh
Grid: 14 kV to Northern States Power Co - Minnesota (MISO)
Location: Goodhue County, Minnesota
Operated by: Northern States Power Co - Minnesota

Net generation, 2025: 125,450MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 2,514,795MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 62.3%
Heat rate, 2025: 20,046Btu/kWh

Capacity factor % of full output, by year

Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year

Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
Year	Net generation (MWh)	Fuel burned (MMBtu)	Capacity factor	Heat rate (Btu/kWh)
2026 (8 of 12 months)	78,748	1,558,783	—	19,795
2025	125,450	2,514,795	62.3%	20,046
2024	123,213	2,637,596	61.0%	21,407
2023	134,577	2,645,072	66.8%	19,655
2022	124,534	2,348,954	61.8%	18,862
2021	132,086	2,505,291	65.6%	18,967
2020	145,165	2,611,801	71.9%	17,992
2019	137,004	2,576,476	68.0%	18,806
2018	121,339	2,415,176	60.2%	19,904
2017	107,792	2,327,044	53.5%	21,588
2016	128,139	2,668,677	63.4%	20,826
2015	117,830	2,518,195	58.5%	21,371
2014	109,528	2,304,120	54.4%	21,037
2013	111,049	2,416,913	55.1%	21,764
2012	103,887	2,133,524	51.4%	20,537
2011	97,081	2,015,070	48.2%	20,757
2010	92,989	2,078,058	46.2%	22,347
2009	97,045	2,138,083	48.2%	22,032
2008	99,907	2,167,602	49.5%	21,696
2007	103,964	2,043,259	51.6%	19,654
2006	97,593	1,789,437	48.4%	18,336
2005	110,316	2,256,451	54.8%	20,454
2004	113,280	2,201,557	56.1%	19,435
2003	111,315	2,153,394	55.2%	19,345
2002	116,878	2,206,788	58.0%	18,881
2001	112,231	1,152,640	55.7%	10,270

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.

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Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

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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.
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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