# Black Dog unit 2, MN — planned retirement, EIA data for April 2026

For Black Dog unit 2, MN, planned retirement year is 2031; planned retirement month is 12; net summer capacity (mw) is 117.0; technology is Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle; fuel code is NG; operator is Northern States Power Co - Minnesota, verified against its source on 2026-10-16.

- **Plant:** Black Dog _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **EIA plant ID:** 1904 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Generator ID:** 2 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Planned retirement year:** 2031 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Planned retirement month:** 12 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Operator:** Northern States Power Co - Minnesota _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **EIA entity ID:** 13781 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Producer type:** Electric Utility _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **State:** MN _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Net summer capacity (MW):** 117.0 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Technology:** Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Fuel code:** NG _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Prime mover:** CA _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **EPM edition:** April 2026 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_

## What the source says

> 2031 12 13781 Northern States Power Co - Minnesota Electric Utility Black Dog MN 1904 2 117.0 Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle NG CA

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### EPM edition

> Table 1.1. Net Generation by Energy Source: Total (All Sectors), 2016-April 2026

## Source

- https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/archive/june2026.pdf

Last verified: 2026-10-16. Review by: 2026-11-25.
Part of [Planned US generating-unit retirements, as EIA published them in one named month's Electric Power Monthly](https://referencesource.org/power-plant-retirement-schedule/).