Westside Solar
Solar power plant · Olmsted County, Minnesota
Nameplate capacity
10 MW
Rank in Minnesota
#142
of 804 plants
In service since
2022
December 2022
Details
- Primary fuel
- Solar
- Technology
- Solar Photovoltaic
- Operator
- Westside Solar, LLC (Ecofin)
- County
- Olmsted County
- Generating units
- 2
- Share of state capacity
- 0.05%
- Rank among solar plants in Minnesota
- #14 of 540
- EIA plant code
- 66422
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH | Solar Photovoltaic | 6.5 MW | 6.4 MW | 2022 | Operating |
| NORTH | Solar Photovoltaic | 3.5 MW | 3.4 MW | 2022 | 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
| Valley View Transmission LLC | Wind | 10 MW |
| Waseca Solar | Solar | 10 MW |
| Luverne | Other | 9.7 MW |
| SAF Hydroelectric LLC | Hydro | 9.6 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 10 MW solar plant and a 10 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