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ALLETE Inc. — power plant portfolio

ALLETE Inc. operates 20 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 1,950 MW. Its plants with asset-level emissions data total 5,286,205 t CO₂/yr.

20power plants
1,950MW total capacity
1countries
5,286,205t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Hydro: 10 plants10HydroWind: 5 plants5WindCoal: 3 plants3CoalWaste: 1 plants1WasteGas: 1 plants1Gas

Fleet interpretation

ALLETE Inc. is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is United States of America (20).

The fuel mix by asset count is hydro (10), wind (5), coal (3), waste (1). The largest listed asset is Clay Boswell in United States of America (922 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 97 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 3 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 3 measured records. Missing values remain blank rather than inferred as company totals.

Method: plant-level records are grouped by owner/operator label, then aggregated by country, fuel, capacity and CO₂ provenance.

All 20 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
Clay BoswellCoalUnited States of America9225,196,646
Bison 4 Wind Energy CenterWindUnited States of America205
Taconite Harbor Energy CenterCoalUnited States of America168
Syl LaskinGasUnited States of America11676,457
Bison 2 Wind Energy CenterWindUnited States of America105
Bison 3 Wind Energy CenterWindUnited States of America105
Bison I Wind Energy CenterWindUnited States of America82
M L HibbardWasteUnited States of America7313,102
ThomsonHydroUnited States of America73
Rapids Energy CenterCoalUnited States of America28
Taconite Ridge 1 Wind Energy CenterWindUnited States of America25
BlanchardHydroUnited States of America18
Fond Du LacHydroUnited States of America12
Little Falls (MN)HydroUnited States of America5
WintonHydroUnited States of America4
Knife FallsHydroUnited States of America2
SylvanHydroUnited States of America2
PillagerHydroUnited States of America2
ScanlonHydroUnited States of America2
Prairie RiverHydroUnited States of America1

Ownership & capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). CO₂ is measured for EPA/EU ETS records and modelled for Climate TRACE records.

Frequently asked questions

How many power plants does ALLETE Inc. operate?

ALLETE Inc. operates 20 power plants across 1 country, with about 1,950 MW of total capacity.

What is ALLETE Inc.'s largest power plant?

Clay Boswell in United States of America is its largest at about 922 MW.

What types of power plants does ALLETE Inc. run?

Its fleet is mostly hydro (10), wind (5), coal (3).

How much CO₂ do ALLETE Inc.'s plants emit?

Its reporting plants emit about 5,286,205 tonnes of CO₂ per year in this dataset.

By Dmytro Aheiev, Inzonex Research · ORCID 0009-0001-5512-0291 · data sources and methodology