Rapidan Hydro Facility
Hydro power plant · Blue Earth County, Minnesota · not currently in service
Details
- Primary fuel
- Hydro
- Technology
- Conventional Hydroelectric
- Operator
- Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, LLC
- County
- Blue Earth County
- Generating units
- 2
- Share of state capacity
- 0.03%
- Rank among hydro plants in Minnesota
- #10 of 22
- EIA plant code
- 52054
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEN1 | Conventional Hydroelectric | 3.4 MW | 3.2 MW | 1984 | Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next calendar year |
| GEN2 | Conventional Hydroelectric | 3.4 MW | 3.2 MW | 1984 | Out of service and NOT expected to return to service in next calendar year |
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
| Tatanka Wi | Solar | 7.1 MW |
| POET Biorefining Lake Crystal | Other | 7.0 MW |
| Grand Marais | Other | 6.7 MW |
| Athens MN CONX | Solar | 6.6 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 6.8 MW solar plant and a 6.8 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