# St Croix Falls unit 7, WI — planned retirement, EIA data for April 2026

For St Croix Falls unit 7, WI, planned retirement year is 2027; planned retirement month is 12; net summer capacity (mw) is 2.0; technology is Conventional Hydroelectric; fuel code is WAT; operator is Northern States Power Co - Minnesota, verified against its source on 2026-10-16.

- **Plant:** St Croix Falls _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **EIA plant ID:** 4011 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Generator ID:** 7 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Planned retirement year:** 2027 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Planned retirement month:** 12 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Superseded by:** Planned retirement has moved to 12/2047. EIA's 'Inventory of Operating Generators as of July 2026' gives 12/2047 for this unit, not the 12/2027 this edition of the Electric Power Monthly printed. Read from the permanent archived copy at https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/archive/xls/july_generator2026.xlsx. This dataset's own June 2026 edition already printed 12/2047 for the same unit. _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **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:** WI _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Net summer capacity (MW):** 2.0 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Technology:** Conventional Hydroelectric _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Fuel code:** WAT _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Prime mover:** HY _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **EPM edition:** April 2026 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_

## What the source says

> 2027 12 13781 Northern States Power Co - Minnesota Electric Utility St Croix Falls WI 4011 7 2.0 Conventional Hydroelectric WAT HY

## 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/).