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Spearfish Hydro
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 53% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1912
- Net generation, 2025
- 18,404 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to Black Hills Power Inc (WACM)
- Location
- Lawrence County, South Dakota
- Operated by
- City of Spearfish - (SD)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 18,404
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 62,793
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 52.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18,404 | 62,793 | 52.5% | — |
| 2024 | 19,930 | 68,003 | 56.7% | — |
| 2023 | 21,425 | 73,103 | 61.1% | — |
| 2022 | 2,027 | 6,917 | 5.8% | — |
| 2021 | 3,151 | 27,869 | 9.0% | — |
| 2020 | 3,150 | 27,617 | 9.0% | — |
| 2019 | 3,151 | 28,060 | 9.0% | — |
| 2018 | 2,145 | 19,528 | 6.1% | — |
| 2017 | 1,685 | 15,524 | 4.8% | — |
| 2016 | 2,194 | 20,255 | 6.2% | — |
| 2015 | 3,151 | 29,365 | 9.0% | — |
| 2014 | 3,043 | 28,943 | 8.7% | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 12 | 0.0% | — |
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.