- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
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- Combustion
- Retired
Willmar: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Willmar
Power plant · Gas, steam turbine
Key facts
Power plant · Gas, steam turbineran 1% of 2024 Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1949
- Net generation, 2024
- 3,106 MWh
- Grid
- 12 kV to Willmar Municipal Utilities (MISO)
- Location
- Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
- Operated by
- Willmar Municipal Utilities (MN)
Operations
- Net generation, 2024
- 3,106
MWh - Fuel burned, 2024
- 10,598
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2024
- 1.0
% - Heat rate, 2024
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3,106 | 10,598 | 1.0% | — |
| 2023 | 3,265 | 11,209 | 1.1% | — |
| 2022 | 7,445 | 25,402 | 2.5% | — |
| 2021 | 5,832 | 51,578 | 2.0% | — |
| 2020 | 7,158 | 62,752 | 2.4% | — |
| 2019 | 6,208 | 56,326 | 2.1% | 9,073 |
| 2018 | 13,552 | 249,707 | 4.5% | 18,426 |
| 2017 | 29,363 | 605,313 | 9.9% | 20,615 |
| 2016 | 36,864 | 741,081 | 12.3% | 20,103 |
| 2015 | 29,871 | 593,231 | 10.0% | 19,860 |
| 2014 | 36,325 | 732,538 | 12.2% | 20,166 |
| 2013 | 26,622 | 566,515 | 8.9% | 21,280 |
| 2012 | 37,782 | 747,549 | 12.7% | 19,786 |
| 2011 | 33,178 | 729,596 | 11.1% | 21,990 |
| 2010 | 37,475 | 783,185 | 12.6% | 20,899 |
| 2009 | 32,295 | 708,670 | 10.8% | 21,944 |
| 2008 | 37,937 | 819,587 | 12.7% | 21,604 |
| 2007 | 39,520 | 832,921 | 13.3% | 21,076 |
| 2006 | 38,314 | 767,744 | 12.9% | 20,038 |
| 2005 | 41,742 | 838,361 | 14.0% | 20,084 |
| 2004 | 42,727 | 847,180 | 14.3% | 19,828 |
| 2003 | 42,938 | 843,290 | 14.4% | 19,640 |
| 2002 | 45,702 | 1,021,622 | 15.3% | 22,354 |
| 2001 | 42,036 | 996,261 | 14.1% | 23,700 |
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)