45th largest plant in South Dakota · 6865th nationally
Poet Biorefining - Chancellor is a natural gas power plant in South Dakota with a nameplate capacity of 5.4 MW. It generates roughly 23.4k MWh per year — enough to power about 2,224 average U.S. homes.
Its capacity factor of 49% puts it in the middle range — running steadily but not full-time.
Ghost bars are each month's theoretical maximum (5.4 MW nameplate × hours in the month). Filled bars are actual net generation reported to EIA Form 923. The gap between them is capacity factor made visible.
| Plant Name | Poet Biorefining - Chancellor |
|---|---|
| Operator | Poet Biorefining- Chancellor |
| City | Chancellor |
| County | Turner County |
| State | South Dakota |
| ZIP | 57015 |
| Coordinates | 43.37050, -96.95980 |
This plant highlighted in navy-ringed pin; other generators within 25 miles shown as fuel-colored dots.
| ID | Technology | Fuel | Capacity | Status | Online |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wood/Wood Waste Biomass | Wood/Wood Waste | 5.4 MW | Operating | 2018 |
| NERC Region | MRO |
|---|---|
| Balancing Authority | Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.. |
Natural gas plants are the workhorse of the modern grid. Combined-cycle units achieve very high efficiency and can ramp up and down quickly to balance variable renewables. They emit roughly half the CO₂ per MWh of coal and far less of other pollutants, but they still release upstream methane during fuel extraction.