Power plants and the grid in Minnesota
Minnesota has 805 power plants with 18.7 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 5.6 GW. The map shows 47 data centers in Minnesota. Its interconnection queue holds 153 active requests for 28.5 GW.
Capacity by fuel
805 power plants with 18.7 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 5.6 GW from 34 plants (30%)
- Wind: 5 GW from 128 plants (27%)
- Coal: 3.1 GW from 8 plants (17%)
- Solar: 2.1 GW from 538 plants (11%)
- Nuclear: 1.7 GW from 2 plants (9%)
- Oil: 669 MW from 58 plants (4%)
- Biomass: 321 MW from 12 plants (2%)
- Hydro: 209 MW from 21 plants (1%)
- Battery storage: 15 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
- Other: 3 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Sherburne County: Coal, 1.6 GW
- Prairie Island: Nuclear, 1 GW
- Clay Boswell: Coal, 938 MW
- Mankato Energy Center: Natural gas, 654 MW
- Monticello Nuclear Facility: Nuclear, 617 MW
- High Bridge: Natural gas, 530 MW
- Allen S King: Coal, 511 MW
- Lakefield Junction: Natural gas, 499 MW
- Black Dog: Natural gas, 491 MW
- Riverside (MN): Natural gas, 454 MW
Largest plants near Minneapolis
- High Bridge: Natural gas, 530 MW, 14 km away
- Allen S King: Coal, 511 MW, 39 km away
- Black Dog: Natural gas, 491 MW, 19 km away
- Riverside (MN): Natural gas, 454 MW, 5 km away
- Blue Lake: Natural gas, 328 MW, 25 km away
Largest plants near St. Paul
- High Bridge: Natural gas, 530 MW, 3 km away
- Allen S King: Coal, 511 MW, 26 km away
- Black Dog: Natural gas, 491 MW, 20 km away
- Riverside (MN): Natural gas, 454 MW, 17 km away
- Blue Lake: Natural gas, 328 MW, 33 km away
Largest plants near Lakeville
- Prairie Island: Nuclear, 1 GW, 48 km away
- High Bridge: Natural gas, 530 MW, 33 km away
- Black Dog: Natural gas, 491 MW, 18 km away
- Riverside (MN): Natural gas, 454 MW, 41 km away
- Blue Lake: Natural gas, 328 MW, 21 km away
Planned and under construction
21 generators planned, under construction or testing, 1.7 GW in all, not counted above.
- Battery storage: 826 MW
- Wind: 428 MW
- Natural gas: 387 MW
- Solar: 76 MW
- Oil: 27 MW
Grid operators
Data centers
47 data center sites on the map.
- Hennepin County: 15 sites
- Carver County: 7 sites
- Dakota County: 7 sites
- Ramsey County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: DataBank (5), Stream Data Centers (3), EdgeConneX (2), Meta (2), Oppidan (2), US Internet (2), Vaultas (2), Verizon (2), Archer Datacenters (1), BHI (1)
Interconnection queue
153 active requests to connect 28.5 GW of new generation and storage, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 13.2 GW in 69 requests
- Battery storage: 7.7 GW in 36 requests
- Wind: 5.5 GW in 29 requests
- Natural gas: 1.7 GW in 10 requests
- Other: 341 MW in 4 requests
- Hydro: 23 MW in 3 requests
- Oil: 19 MW in 2 requests
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Places gazetteer (cities, airports, regions): Natural Earth populated places; OurAirports; Natural Earth admin-1; Wattlas curated places. License: Public domain
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0; USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain; Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH; the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain