🔥 Natural Gas Power Plants in South Dakota

South Dakota operates 16 natural gas power plants totaling 1,651 MW of nameplate capacity. Annual generation: 2.1M MWh.

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.

Where natural gas plants sit in South Dakota

All South Dakota natural gas plants

Plant	City	County	Capacity	Operator
Angus Anson	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha County	406 MW	Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
Astoria Station	Astoria	Deuel County	349 MW	Otter Tail Power Co
Deer Creek Station	White	Brookings County	324 MW	Basin Electric Power Coop
Groton Generation Station	Groton	Brown County	216 MW	Basin Electric Power Coop
Aberdeen Ct	Aberdeen	Brown County	111 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
Ben French	Rapid City	Pennington County	110 MW	Black Hills Power, Inc.
Bob Glanzer Generating Station	Huron	Beadle County	69 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
Lange Generating Station	Rapid City	Pennington County	40 MW	Black Hills Power, Inc.
Yankton	Yankton	Yankton County	13 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
Poet Biorefining - Chancellor	Chancellor	Turner County	5 MW	Poet Biorefining- Chancellor
Poet Bioprocessing- Mitchell	Mitchell	Davison County	4 MW	Poet Bioprocessing- Mitchell
Poet Biorefining - Hudson	Hudson	Lincoln County	4 MW	Poet Biorefining - Hudson
Pathfinder	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha County	—	Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
Huron	Huron	Beadle County	—	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
Redfield	Redfield	Spink County	—	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
Future Ct	Huron	Hyde County	—	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)

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