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Big Sky Dairy Digester

Other power plant · Gooding County, Idaho

Nameplate capacity
1.6 MW
Rank in Idaho
#142
of 155 plants
In service since
2009
January 2009

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Other Waste Biomass
Operator
DF-AP #1 LLC
County
Gooding County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.02%
Rank among other plants in Idaho
#14 of 14
EIA plant code
57393

Generating units

Individual generating units at Big Sky Dairy Digester
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GEN1Other Waste Biomass0.8 MW0.7 MW2009Operating
GEN2Other Waste Biomass0.8 MW0.7 MW2009Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 1.6 MW solar plant and a 1.6 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Idaho power plants · What Idaho actually generates