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Combined Locks Energy Center

Natural gas power plant · Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Nameplate capacity
67 MW
Rank in Wisconsin
#51
of 278 plants
In service since
2002
May 2002

Details

Primary fuel
Natural gas
Technology
Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle
Operator
McKinley Paper
County
Outagamie County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.34%
Rank among natural gas plants in Wisconsin
#23 of 41
EIA plant code
55558

Generating units

Individual generating units at Combined Locks Energy Center
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GEN1Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle61 MW46 MW2002Operating
GEN2Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle6.0 MW6.0 MW2002Operating

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 67 MW solar plant and a 67 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