# Elk River

MISO asset profile · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/elk-river

Great River Energy - Sherburne County - MISO

Elk River is a 191.3 MW natural-gas-fired simple-cycle combustion turbine peaking plant in Sherburne County, Minnesota, near the city of Elk River. It is owned and operated by Great River Energy, a generation and transmission cooperative serving 28 member distribution cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The plant entered service in July 2009, built around a Siemens SGT6-5000F turbine chosen for its fast-start capability, letting it ramp to roughly 150 MW of output within about ten minutes to cover summer peak demand. It can also burn ultra-low-sulfur diesel as a backup fuel when gas supply is constrained. The plant is a distinct facility from Great River Energy's older Elk River Energy Recovery Station, a waste-to-energy plant on a nearby site that was shut down in March 2019 and later demolished; the gas-fired Elk River plant covered here remains in service with no whole-plant retirement scheduled. It sells into the MISO market, with its nearest price nodes around the NSP.MNTCEL1 and NSP.SHERCO1 hubs.

## Metrics

- **Nameplate capacity:** 191.3 MW — Canonical EIA plant baseline.
- **Registry anchor:** Plant 2039 — plant-2039

## Facts

- **Technology:** Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine
- **Operator:** Great River Energy

## Related parties

- **Commercial participant:** Elk River — EIA plant and generator identifier
- **Owner / operator:** Great River Energy — Great River Energy is the owner and operator of Elk River Peaking Station. ([source](https://greatriverenergy.com/))
- **EPC contractor / construction contractor:** Harris — Harris served as general contractor and engineering consultant. ([source](https://harriscompany.com/projects/great-river-energy-elk-river-peaking-station))

## Sources

- [greatriverenergy.com](https://greatriverenergy.com/electricity-sources/natural-gas-and-generation-stations) — greatriverenergy.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [harriscompany.com](https://harriscompany.com/projects/great-river-energy-elk-river-peaking-station) — harriscompany.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [mbrweb.ferc.gov](https://mbrweb.ferc.gov/SearchlkpEIA/Index?page=323) — mbrweb.ferc.gov · authoritative — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [industrialinfo.com](https://www.industrialinfo.com/news/article/great-river-energy-begins-construction-on-90-million-peaking-project-in-minnesota--135117) — industrialinfo.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.

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Canonical page: https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/elk-river
Website: [Great River Energy](https://greatriverenergy.com/)

Source: Ask the Grid — https://askthegrid.com/