Mower County Wind Energy Center
Wind power plant · Mower County, Minnesota
Nameplate capacity
99 MW
Rank in Minnesota
#50
of 804 plants
In service since
2006
December 2006
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
- County
- Mower County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.50%
- Rank among wind plants in Minnesota
- #26 of 121
- EIA plant code
- 56424
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 99 MW | 91 MW | 2006 | 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
| Stoneray Power Partners, LLC | Wind | 100 MW |
| Elm Creek Wind LLC | Wind | 99 MW |
| Sappi Cloquet Mill | Other | 95 MW |
| Hutchinson Plant #2 | Natural gas | 91 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 99 MW solar plant and a 99 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