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Williston — Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine · Montana-Dakota Utilities CoBison Generation Station — Gas, combined cycle · ND · 1,518 MW · 24.2 km away
  • Combustion
  • In development
  • Retired
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1953
Net generation, 2011
-68 MWh
Grid
57 kV to Montana-Dakota Utilities Co (SWPP)
Location
Williams County, North Dakota
Operated by
Montana-Dakota Utilities CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2012
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2012
  • Gas
  • Oil

Operations detail

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Technology
Gas, combustion turbine source: “Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine”
Age
73 years since 1953
1 attribute from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Attributes
AttributeValue
Balancing authority codeSWPP

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusEvery generator EIA lists at this plant has retired. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Retired
January 2012
Capacity retired
10 MW
Generators retired
2
Generators that retired or are scheduled to retire
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
2Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine5 MWRetiredJanuary 2012
3Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine5 MWRetiredJanuary 2012

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
57 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co
Balancing authority
Southwest Power Pool
NERC region
MRO
Transmission lines within 25 km (2)
Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Timeline

  • Stated Units 2, 3 scheduled to retire, 10 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

4 sources

Sources EIA-860M · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Sources

Every source and license · Attribution

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Around this plant

Nearby

within 25 km
Projects within 25 km, nearest first.
ProjectKindAwayMW
Bison Generation Station Filed Gas, combined cycle 24.2 km 1,518

Sources EIA-860M

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