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Cedar Falls (WI)

Hydro power plant · Dunn County, Wisconsin

Nameplate capacity
6.0 MW
Rank in Wisconsin
#139
of 278 plants
In service since
2010
January 2010

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
County
Dunn County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.03%
Rank among hydro plants in Wisconsin
#24 of 61
EIA plant code
3998

Generating units

Individual generating units at Cedar Falls (WI)
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric2.0 MW1.3 MW2015Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric2.0 MW1.1 MW2011Operating
3Conventional Hydroelectric2.0 MW1.2 MW2010Operating

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 6.0 MW solar plant and a 6.0 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 Wisconsin power plants · What Wisconsin actually generates