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Redfield — Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine · NorthWestern Energy - (SD)
  • Combustion
  • Retired
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1962
Net generation, 2013
-117 MWh
Grid
34 kV to NorthWestern Energy (SWPP)
Location
Spink County, South Dakota
Operated by
NorthWestern Energy - (SD)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Operations

Net generation, 2013
-117MWh
Fuel burned, 2013
73MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2013
Not stated
Heat rate, 2013
Not stated
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.
YearNet generation (MWh)Fuel burned (MMBtu)Capacity factorHeat rate (Btu/kWh)
2014 (6 of 12 months)-2120——
2013-11773——
2012-232197——
2011-255984——
2010-271496——
2009-2591,015——
2008-1851,736——
2007172,5130.1%—
20061441,9770.4%13,729
2005-1194,610——
2004-12360——
2003-115127——
2002931,3840.3%14,882
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

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Sources EIA-860M · EIA

Sources

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