Black Oak Wind Farm
Wind power plant · Stearns County, Minnesota
Nameplate capacity
78 MW
Rank in Minnesota
#55
of 804 plants
In service since
2016
December 2016
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Black Oak Wind, LLC
- County
- Stearns County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.39%
- Rank among wind plants in Minnesota
- #27 of 121
- EIA plant code
- 58692
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 78 MW | 78 MW | 2016 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in Minnesota
| Cascade Creek | Natural gas | 85 MW |
| New Ulm | Other | 79 MW |
| M L Hibbard | Other | 73 MW |
| Thomson | Hydro | 73 MW |
About this data
From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 78 MW solar plant and a 78 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.
“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Minnesota power plants · What Minnesota actually generates