Power Plants in North Dakota

70 plants · 13.9 GW total capacity

North Dakota has 70 power plants with 13.9 GW total capacity. The generation mix includes 45 wind, 7 coal, 6 gas plants.

Largest is Bison Generation Station (1518 MW Natural Gas); oldest active is Grafton (1937); newest is Badger Wind, LLC (2026); top owner is NextEra Energy (11 plants).

47 interconnection queue projects in North Dakota totaling 10.7 GW of proposed capacity.

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By Fuel Type

Wind

45 plants · 5.6 GW

Coal

7 plants · 4 GW

Gas

6 plants · 3.1 GW

Oil

5 plants · 60 MW

other

3 plants · 24 MW

Battery

2 plants · 240 MW

Hydro

1 plants · 583 MW

Solar

1 plants · 295 MW

All Plants (sorted by capacity)

Bison Generation Station — 1518 MW Natural Gas
Coal Creek — 1216 MW RC
Antelope Valley — 954 MW Lignite
Pioneer Generation Station — 897 MW Natural Gas
Milton R Young — 734 MW Lignite
Leland Olds — 656 MW Lignite
Garrison — 583 MW Hydro
Coyote — 450 MW Lignite
Lonesome Creek Station — 363 MW Natural Gas
Aurora Wind Project — 299 MW Wind
Abercrombie Solar — 295 MW Solar
Badger Wind, LLC — 250 MW Wind
New Salem Wind II — 226 MW Wind
Bison 4 Wind Energy Center — 205 MW Wind
Red Butte Wind — 202 MW Wind
Bowman Wind — 200 MW Wind
Emmons-Logan Wind, LLC — 200 MW Wind
Courtenay Wind Farm — 200 MW Wind
New Salem Wind I — 200 MW Wind
Burke Wind, LLC — 199 MW Wind
Oliver Wind IV — 199 MW Wind
Tatanka Wind Power LLC — 180 MW Wind
R M Heskett — 178 MW Natural Gas
Thunder Spirit Wind, LLC — 156 MW Wind
Merricourt Wind Energy Center — 150 MW Wind
Border Winds Wind Farm — 150 MW Wind
Lindahl Wind Project, LLC — 150 MW Wind
Foxtail Wind, LLC — 150 MW Wind
Brady II Wind Energy Center — 150 MW Wind
Brady Wind Energy Center — 150 MW Wind
Rugby Wind Power Project — 149 MW Wind
FPL Energy Ashtabula Wind LLC — 149 MW Wind
Emmons-Logan Energy Storage — 140 MW BESS
Ashtabula Wind II LLC — 120 MW Wind
Langdon Renewables, LLC — 119 MW Wind
Prairie Winds ND1 — 116 MW Wind
Glen Ullin Energy Center — 107 MW Wind
Spiritwood Station — 106 MW Natural Gas
Bison 2 Wind Energy Center — 105 MW Wind
Bison 3 Wind Energy Center — 105 MW Wind
Sunflower Wind Project — 104 MW Wind
Baldwin Wind LLC — 102 MW Wind
New Frontier Wind — 100 MW Wind
Northern Divide Energy Storage — 100 MW BESS
Oliver Wind III, LLC — 99 MW Wind
Bison I Wind Energy Center — 82 MW Wind
Ashtabula Wind III LLC — 62 MW Wind
FPL Energy North Dakota Wind I/II — 62 MW Wind
FPL Energy Oliver Wind I LLC — 51 MW Wind
Wilton Wind II LLC — 50 MW Wind
FPL Energy Burleigh County Wind — 50 MW Wind
Luverne Wind Energy Center — 50 MW Wind
Jamestown — 48 MW Distillate Oil
FPL Energy Oliver Wind II LLC — 48 MW Wind
Ashtabula Wind Energy Center — 48 MW Wind
Langdon Wind Energy Center — 41 MW Wind
Langdon Wind II LLC — 41 MW Wind
Cedar Hills Wind Farm — 20 MW Wind
American Crystal Sugar Hillsboro — 13 MW Sub. Coal
Velva Windfarm LLC — 12 MW Wind
Enderlin — 10 MW Ag. Byproduct
Tesoro Mandan Cogeneration Plant — 9 MW Other Gas
American Crystal Sugar Drayton — 6 MW Sub. Coal
Glen Ullin Station 6 — 5 MW Waste Heat
Minot Wind Project — 5 MW Wind
Grafton — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Hillsboro — 4 MW Distillate Oil
Marvin Composites — 3 MW Natural Gas
Kindred School — 2 MW Distillate Oil
Dakota Magic — 2 MW Distillate Oil

Queue Projects in North Dakota (47 projects)

SPP-ERAS-2025-011 — 750 MW Gas
SPP-ERAS-2025-012 — 750 MW Gas
SPP-GEN-2024-082 — 745 MW Gas
SPP-GEN-2024-081 — 745 MW Gas
MISO-J3163 — 479 MW Other
Red Butte Wind — 457 MW Wind
SPP-GEN-2024-141 — 424 MW Wind
WAPA-IS-GI-1404 — 383 MW Wind
SPP-GEN-2017-048 — 300 MW Wind
MISO-J3280 — 300 MW Wind
MPC-MPC04000 — 300 MW Wind
MPC-MPC04500 — 258 MW Wind
WAPA-IS-GI-1503 — 251 MW Wind
MPC-MPC03800 — 250 MW Wind
MISO-J3787 — 247 MW Solar
MPC-MPC04600 — 209 MW Battery
MPC-MPC04400 — 206 MW Wind
MISO-J3833 — 200 MW Wind
SPP-GEN-2024-327 — 200 MW Battery
SPP-GEN-2024-329 — 200 MW Battery
MISO-J2250 — 200 MW Wind
MISO-J2080 — 200 MW Wind
MISO-J3522 — 200 MW Solar
Surplus; J1588 — 200 MW Battery
WAPA-IS-GI-1502 — 182 MW Wind
WAPA-IS-GI-1508 — 172 MW Wind
MISO-J4170 — 172 MW Solar+Battery
MPC-MPC03600 — 170 MW Solar
MPC-MPC03900 — 151 MW Wind
MISO-J2502 — 150 MW Wind
SPP-GEN-2026-SR6 — 150 MW Battery
SPP-GEN-2026-SR7 — 150 MW Battery
WAPA-IS-GI-1509 — 150 MW Wind
MPC-MPC03700 — 130 MW Solar
SPP-GEN-2016-007 — 100 MW Wind
MISO-J2157 — 100 MW Wind
MISO-J2097 — 100 MW Wind
MISO-J3070 — 100 MW Wind
MISO-J2913 — 90 MW Battery
SPP-GEN-2018-010 — 74 MW Battery
MISO-J4077 — 45 MW Solar
MISO-J4070 — 40 MW Solar
SPP-GEN-2024-SR12 — 20 MW Battery
MISO-G150 — 12 MW Other
SPP-GEN-2025-GR5 — 8 MW Wind
WAPA-IS-GI-1103 — 1 MW Gas
SPP-GEN-2025-GR3 — 0 MW Wind