List of power stations in Minnesota
This is a list of active electricity-generating power stations in Minnesota.
Coal
Plant | Location | Capacity (MW) | Number Of Generating Units |
Owner | Year Built |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Allen S. King Generating Station | Oak Park Heights, Minnesota | 511 | 1 | Xcel Energy | 1967 -- Closing 2028 |
Clay Boswell Energy Center | Cohasset, Minnesota | 1,072.5 | 4 | Minnesota Power | |
Sherburne County Generating Station | Becker, Minnesota | 2,238 | 3 | Xcel Energy [1] Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Association |
U1: 1976 -- closing 2026 U2: 1977 -- closing 2023 U3: 1987 -- closing 2030 |
Natural Gas & Fuel Oil
Plant | Location | Capacity (MW) | Number Of Generating Units |
Generation Type | Fuel Type | Owner |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Black Dog Plant | Burnsville, Minnesota | 526 | 3 | 1x1 Combined Cycle, Simple Cycle (x1) | Gas | Xcel Energy |
Blue Lake Plant | Shakopee, Minnesota | 545 | 6 | Simple Cycle (x6) | Gas (x2), Oil (x4) | Xcel Energy |
Cannon Falls Energy Center | Cannon Falls, Minnesota | 357 | 2 | Simple Cycle (x2) | Gas | |
Faribault Energy Park | Faribault, Minnesota | 2 | Simple Cycle (x2) | Gas | MMPA | |
High Bridge Plant | St. Paul, Minnesota | 606 | 3 | 2x1 Combined Cycle | Gas | Xcel Energy |
Inver Hills Plant | Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota | 371 | 6 | Simple Cycle (x6) | Gas & Oil (x6) | Xcel Energy |
LS Power | Cottage Grove, Minnesota | 2 | Simple Cycle (x2) | Gas | TYR Energy | |
Mankato Energy Center | Mankato, Minnesota | 3 | 2x1 Combined Cycle | Gas | Xcel Energy | |
Minnesota River Station | Chaska, Minnesota | 1 | Simple Cycle | 49 | MMPA | |
Riverside Plant | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 502 | 3 | 2x1 Combined Cycle | Gas | Xcel Energy |
Shakopee Energy Park | Shakopee, Minnesota | 46 | 5 | Reciprocating Engine (x5) | Gas | MMPA |
Nuclear power
Name | Location | Capacity (MW) | Number Of Generating Units |
Reactor Type | Owner |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant | Monticello, Minnesota | 671 | 1 | Boiling Water Reactor | Xcel Energy |
Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant | Red Wing, Minnesota | 1,092 | 2 | Pressurized Water Reactor | Xcel Energy |
Refuse Derived Fuel
Name | Location | Capacity (MW) | Number Of Generating Units |
Owner | Year opened |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
HERC | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 24 | 2 | Covanta Hennepin Energy | |
Hometown Boienergy | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 8 | MMPA | 2014 | |
Red Wing Plant | Red Wing, Minnesota | 18 | 2 | Xcel Energy | 1949 |
Shakopee Biomass | Shakopee, Minnesota | 8 | 1 | Koda Energy | |
St. Paul CoGen | St. Paul, Minnesota | District Energy | |||
Wilmarth Plant | Mankato, Minnesota | 18 | 2 | Xcel Energy | 1948 |
Wind power
Name | Location | Capacity (MW) | Number Of Generating Units |
Owner | Year opened |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fenton Wind Farm | Chandler, Minnesota | 205.5 | EDF Renewables | 2007 | |
Lake Benton Wind Farm | Pipestone County, Minnesota | 200 | 100 | Xcel Energy | 2019 |
Nobles Wind Farm | Reading, Minnesota | 200 | 134 | Xcel Energy | 2010 |
Freeborn Wind Farm | Freeborn County, Minnesota | 200 | 100 | Xcel Energy | 2019 |
Pleasant Valley Wind Farm | Dexter, Minnesota | 200 | 100 | Xcel Energy | 2015 |
Grand Meadows Wind Farm | Dexter, Minnesota | 100 | 67 | Xcel Energy | 2008 |
Blazing Star Wind Farm | Lincoln County, Minnesota | 200 | 100 | Xcel Energy | 2019 |
References
- Sherco 3 brochure, p. 2
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