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Ridgewind
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 34% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2011
- Net generation, 2025
- 75,217 MWh
- Grid
- 115 kV to Northern States Power Co - Minnesota (MISO)
- Location
- Pipestone County, Minnesota
- Operated by
- Ridgewind Power Partners LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 75,217
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 256,640
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 33.9
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75,217 | 256,640 | 33.9% | — |
| 2024 | 81,401 | 277,740 | 36.6% | — |
| 2023 | 78,934 | 269,323 | 35.6% | — |
| 2022 | 90,189 | 307,725 | 40.7% | — |
| 2021 | 80,511 | 712,039 | 36.3% | — |
| 2020 | 85,849 | 752,640 | 38.6% | — |
| 2019 | 77,409 | 689,328 | 34.9% | — |
| 2018 | 79,411 | 722,958 | 35.8% | — |
| 2017 | 84,738 | 780,692 | 38.2% | — |
| 2016 | 89,030 | 821,924 | 40.1% | — |
| 2015 | 88,187 | 821,815 | 39.8% | — |
| 2014 | 87,662 | 833,666 | 39.6% | — |
| 2013 | 85,999 | 820,517 | 38.8% | — |
| 2012 | 94,361 | 897,939 | 42.5% | — |
| 2011 | 86,354 | 839,015 | 39.0% | — |
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)