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Power plant · Waste to energy Retiring

Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 1948
Net generation, 2025: 98,230 MWh
Grid: 69 kV to Northern States Power Co - Minnesota (MISO)
Location: Blue Earth County, Minnesota
Operated by: Northern States Power Co - Minnesota

Net generation, 2025: 98,230MWh
Fuel burned, 2025: 1,731,814MMBtu
Capacity factor, 2025: 44.9%
Heat rate, 2025: 17,630Btu/kWh

Capacity factor % of full output, by year

Heat rate Btu per kWh, by year

Net generation, fuel burned, capacity factor and heat rate by year, newest first, as EIA's bulk electricity file states them.
Year	Net generation (MWh)	Fuel burned (MMBtu)	Capacity factor	Heat rate (Btu/kWh)
2026 (8 of 12 months)	67,891	1,314,146	—	19,357
2025	98,230	1,731,814	44.9%	17,630
2024	105,753	1,887,527	48.2%	17,848
2023	97,033	1,900,884	44.3%	19,590
2022	96,516	1,996,523	44.1%	20,686
2021	96,200	1,720,056	43.9%	17,880
2020	113,925	2,039,678	51.9%	17,904
2019	107,258	2,231,875	49.0%	20,808
2018	100,083	2,078,183	45.7%	20,765
2017	87,716	1,847,354	40.1%	21,061
2016	102,709	2,181,620	46.8%	21,241
2015	110,129	2,328,042	50.3%	21,139
2014	106,945	2,297,525	48.8%	21,483
2013	105,464	2,231,221	48.2%	21,156
2012	103,409	1,968,949	47.1%	19,040
2011	104,587	2,010,202	47.8%	19,220
2010	89,174	1,787,614	40.7%	20,046
2009	94,772	2,014,080	43.3%	21,252
2008	97,023	1,984,817	44.2%	20,457
2007	113,807	2,219,937	52.0%	19,506
2006	111,678	2,008,209	51.0%	17,982
2005	105,429	2,116,163	48.1%	20,072
2004	106,853	2,057,422	48.7%	19,255
2003	123,475	2,255,665	56.4%	18,268
2002	131,157	2,254,293	59.9%	17,188
2001	120,916	1,244,348	55.2%	10,291

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.

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Sources EIA-860M · GEM · EIA

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EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global 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.
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)

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