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Coal Creek Station is the largest power plant in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Located near the Missouri River between Underwood, North Dakota, and Washburn, North Dakota, it burns lignite. Its two generators are each rated at 605 megawatts, with a peak total production of nearly 1.2 gigawatts. Great River Energy had announced its intention to close the plant in 2022 if a new owner could not be found. On June 30, 2021, Great River Energy announced that they had reached an agreement to sell the plant to Rainbow Energy Center, LLC, who plans to continue to operate the plant. On May 2, 2022 the sale of Coal Creek Station and the high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system was completed.
Read more on WikipediaCoal Creek is a 1215.6 MW hybrid power plant located in McLean County, North Dakota. The plant, which began operating in 1979, is owned by United Energy and operated by Rainbow Energy Center. It utilizes both conventional steam coal and petroleum liquids (DFO) as fuel sources across its four generators. Coal Creek is the largest power plant in North Dakota and ranks as the 8th largest coal-fired plant nationally out of 60 such plants.
The plant operates within the Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) balancing authority and the MRO NERC region. The latest available annual generation data indicates an output of 8,238,149 MWh, resulting in a capacity factor of 77.4%.
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