- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
- Retired
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Stanton
Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coalran 64% of 2016 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1967
- Net generation, 2016
- 1,073,916 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Great River Energy (MISO)
- Location
- Mercer County, North Dakota
- Operated by
- Great River EnergySourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2016
- 1,073,916
MWh - Fuel burned, 2016
- 11,479,227
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2016
- 63.9
% - Heat rate, 2016
- 10,689
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 (4 of 12 months) | 174,191 | 1,915,137 | — | 10,994 |
| 2016 | 1,073,916 | 11,479,227 | 63.9% | 10,689 |
| 2015 | 1,071,694 | 11,548,733 | 64.0% | 10,776 |
| 2014 | 1,307,308 | 13,976,952 | 78.0% | 10,691 |
| 2013 | 1,071,191 | 11,479,817 | 64.0% | 10,717 |
| 2012 | 1,242,965 | 13,254,193 | 74.0% | 10,663 |
| 2011 | 1,264,442 | 13,444,132 | 75.5% | 10,632 |
| 2010 | 1,351,325 | 14,205,207 | 80.7% | 10,512 |
| 2009 | 1,178,990 | 12,462,815 | 70.4% | 10,571 |
| 2008 | 1,455,946 | 15,375,304 | 86.7% | 10,560 |
| 2007 | 1,455,226 | 15,362,852 | 86.9% | 10,557 |
| 2006 | 1,232,540 | 13,140,916 | 73.6% | 10,662 |
| 2005 | 1,427,547 | 15,108,655 | 85.2% | 10,584 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,139,929 | 12,233,149 | 68.1% | 10,732 |
| 2002 | 1,399,737 | 15,049,712 | 83.6% | 10,752 |
| 2001 | 1,360,696 | 14,886,168 | 81.2% | 10,940 |
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 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global 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.
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)