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Wells IC
Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, reciprocating engineran 1% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1953
- Net generation, 2025
- 437 MWh
- Grid
- 4 kV to City of Wells - (MN) (MISO)
- Location
- Faribault County, Minnesota
- Operated by
- City of Wells - (MN)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 437
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 4,779
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 0.5
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 10,936
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 437 | 4,779 | 0.5% | 10,936 |
| 2024 | 180 | 1,959 | 0.2% | 10,883 |
| 2023 | 128 | 1,333 | 0.2% | 10,414 |
| 2022 | 221 | 2,635 | 0.3% | 11,923 |
| 2021 | 435 | 4,929 | 0.5% | 11,331 |
| 2020 | 203 | 1,020 | 0.3% | 5,025 |
| 2019 | 345 | 1,469 | 0.4% | — |
| 2018 | 183 | 1,694 | 0.2% | 9,257 |
| 2017 | 369 | 4,566 | 0.5% | 12,374 |
| 2016 | 81 | 835 | 0.1% | 10,266 |
| 2015 | 498 | 6,192 | 0.6% | 12,438 |
| 2014 | 83 | 9,774 | 0.1% | — |
| 2013 | 83 | 6,145 | 0.1% | — |
| 2012 | 802 | 9,953 | 1.0% | 12,410 |
| 2011 | 856 | 9,188 | 1.1% | 10,734 |
| 2010 | 500 | 5,698 | 0.6% | 11,401 |
| 2009 | 83 | 3,873 | 0.1% | — |
| 2008 | 63 | 1,418 | 0.1% | 22,508 |
| 2007 | 739 | 10,290 | 0.9% | 13,924 |
| 2006 | 1,492 | 15,350 | 1.9% | 10,288 |
| 2005 | 924 | 11,441 | 1.2% | 12,382 |
| 2004 | 71 | 940 | 0.1% | 13,240 |
| 2003 | 746 | 12,025 | 0.9% | 16,119 |
| 2002 | 664 | 8,201 | 0.8% | 12,351 |
| 2001 | 876 | 10,369 | 1.1% | 11,837 |
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.