Olmsted Waste Energy
Other power plant · Olmsted County, Minnesota
Nameplate capacity
11 MW
Rank in Minnesota
#130
of 804 plants
In service since
1987
April 1987
Details
- Primary fuel
- Other
- Technology
- Municipal Solid Waste
- Operator
- Olmsted County Public Works
- County
- Olmsted County
- Generating units
- 4
- Share of state capacity
- 0.06%
- Rank among other plants in Minnesota
- #29 of 71
- EIA plant code
- 50413
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG3 | Municipal Solid Waste | 5.5 MW | 5.0 MW | 2010 | Operating |
| TG2 | Municipal Solid Waste | 2.2 MW | 1.3 MW | 1987 | Operating |
| TGI | Municipal Solid Waste | 1.9 MW | 1.4 MW | 1987 | Operating |
| DGCAT | Petroleum Liquids | 1.7 MW | 1.3 MW | 2009 | Standby/Backup: available for service but not normally used |
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
| Centennial Generating Station | Other | 12 MW |
| Sleepy Eye | Other | 11 MW |
| Lakota Ridge LLC | Wind | 11 MW |
| Blue Earth | Other | 11 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 11 MW solar plant and a 11 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