Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend, LLC
Natural gas power plant · Dakota County, Minnesota
Nameplate capacity
118 MW
Rank in Minnesota
#36
of 804 plants
In service since
2019
May 2019
Details
- Primary fuel
- Natural gas
- Technology
- Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle
- Operator
- Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend, LLC
- County
- Dakota County
- Generating units
- 3
- Share of state capacity
- 0.60%
- Rank among natural gas plants in Minnesota
- #14 of 36
- EIA plant code
- 65405
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTG | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | 61 MW | 40 MW | 2019 | Operating |
| SOLAR | Solar Photovoltaic | 45 MW | 45 MW | 2023 | Operating |
| STG | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | 13 MW | 10 MW | 2019 | 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
| Elm Creek Wind II LLC | Wind | 149 MW |
| Silver Bay Power | Coal | 132 MW |
| Syl Laskin | Natural gas | 116 MW |
| Walleye Wind | Wind | 110 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 118 MW solar plant and a 118 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