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Worthington
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oilran 4% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2002
- Net generation, 2025
- 6,419 MWh
- Grid
- 12 kV to City of Worthington - (MN) (MISO)
- Location
- Nobles County, Minnesota
- Operated by
- City of Worthington - (MN)
Output
- Oil
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- WPPI Energy
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- Technology
- Oil source: “Petroleum Liquids”
- Age
- 24 years since 2002
- Unused energy
- 165 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
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| Grid |
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| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 22,352 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.037 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 6,419 |
| Balancing authority code | MISO |
Data notes (1)
- Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 not shown: computed 3482.2 outside 5000-30000 Btu/kWh
Wind turbines
Wind turbines
USGS maps these turbines around a center 3.6 mi from the point this page maps the plant at; the nearest turbine is 3.4 mi from that point.
- Turbines
- 6
- Turbine capacity (MW)
- 5.5
- Turbine models
- 4 NEG Micon NM52 and 2 NEG Micon NM54
- Hub height (m)
- 70
- Rotor diameter (m)
- 52–54
- Years online
- 2002–2003
Source U.S. Wind Turbine Database
Source
- U.S. Wind Turbine DatabaseMap services and data are available from U.S. Wind Turbine Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, American Clean Power Association, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Worthington - (MN) | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| WPPI Energy | Owner | 9.2% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
6 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · U.S. Wind Turbine Database · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Sources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal 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.
- U.S. Wind Turbine DatabaseMap services and data are available from U.S. Wind Turbine Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, American Clean Power Association, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules