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Saratoga Wind Farm
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 47% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2019
- Net generation, 2025
- 270,154 MWh
- Grid
- 161 kV to Southern Minnesota Mun P Agny (MISO)
- Location
- Howard County, Iowa
- Operated by
- Madison Gas & Electric CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 270,154
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 921,765
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 46.7
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 161,301 | 550,359 | — | — |
| 2025 | 270,154 | 921,765 | 46.7% | — |
| 2024 | 281,930 | 961,944 | 48.6% | — |
| 2023 | 259,690 | 886,062 | 44.9% | — |
| 2022 | 282,781 | 964,848 | 48.9% | — |
| 2021 | 265,076 | 2,344,331 | 45.9% | — |
| 2020 | 276,639 | 2,425,294 | 47.7% | — |
| 2019 (11 of 12 months) | 232,561 | 2,070,955 | — | — |
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)