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St. Cloud Hydro
Power plant · Hydro
Key facts
Power plant · Hydroran 61% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1988
- Net generation, 2025
- 45,987 MWh
- Grid
- 34 kV to Northern States Power Co - Minnesota (MISO)
- Location
- Stearns County, Minnesota
- Operated by
- St. Cloud Hydroelectric Generation FacilitySourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 45,987
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 156,908
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 61.0
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45,987 | 156,908 | 61.0% | — |
| 2024 | 50,621 | 172,719 | 67.0% | — |
| 2023 | 37,175 | 126,842 | 49.4% | — |
| 2022 | 50,342 | 171,768 | 66.8% | — |
| 2021 | 38,897 | 344,005 | 51.6% | — |
| 2020 | 55,179 | 483,755 | 73.0% | — |
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.