Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar
Coal power plant · Renville County, Minnesota
Nameplate capacity
7.5 MW
Rank in Minnesota
#164
of 804 plants
In service since
1976
September 1976
Details
- Primary fuel
- Coal
- Technology
- Conventional Steam Coal
- Operator
- Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar
- County
- Renville County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.04%
- Rank among coal plants in Minnesota
- #6 of 8
- EIA plant code
- 54533
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0001 | Conventional Steam Coal | 7.5 MW | 7.5 MW | 1976 | Operating |
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 7.5 MW solar plant and a 7.5 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