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West Campus Cogeneration Facility is a natural gas fired, electrical power station located in Madison, Wisconsin in Dane County. The facility is owned jointly by Madison Gas and Electric and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with Madison Gas and Electric operating and maintaining the facility. It provides electricity to Madison Gas and Electric, and steam heat and chilled-water air-conditioning to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Read more on WikipediaThe West Campus Cogeneration Facility is a 169.3 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle plant located in Dane County, Wisconsin. The plant began operating in 2005 and has three generators. It is owned by MGE Energy and operated by Madison Gas & Electric Co. The facility operates within the Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. (MISO) balancing authority and the MRO NERC region.
In the most recent year of data, the plant generated 281,983 MWh, achieving a capacity factor of 18.9%. The installed cost of the facility was $722.51 per kW, according to FERC data. The West Campus Cogeneration Facility is ranked as the 17th largest power plant out of 19 in Wisconsin, and 794th out of 945 nationally.
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