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Janesville

Other power plant · Waseca County, Minnesota

Nameplate capacity
4.9 MW
Rank in Minnesota
#263
of 804 plants
In service since
1955
May 1955

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Petroleum Liquids
Operator
City of Janesville - (MN)
County
Waseca County
Generating units
4
Share of state capacity
0.02%
Rank among other plants in Minnesota
#56 of 71
EIA plant code
1982

Generating units

Individual generating units at Janesville
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
4Petroleum Liquids1.8 MW1.8 MW1998Operating
2Petroleum Liquids1.3 MW1.1 MW1972Operating
1Petroleum Liquids1.1 MW0.9 MW1965Operating
3Petroleum Liquids0.7 MW0.5 MW1955Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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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 4.9 MW solar plant and a 4.9 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