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Minnesota electricity production by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in Minnesota, sorted by type and name.In 2022, Minnesota had a total summer capacity of 18,460 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 58,966 GWh. [2]
The Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant is a nuclear power plant located in Monticello, Minnesota, along the Mississippi River. The site, which began operating in 1971, has a single nuclear reactor (boiling water reactor) of the General Electric BWR-3 design generating 671 MWe. The plant is owned by Xcel Energy and operated by Northern States ...
Prairie Island is one of two nuclear power plants in Minnesota (the other being Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in Monticello). Prairie Island has attracted controversy in the early 21st century for its operator Xcel Energy 's decision to store nuclear waste in large steel casks on-site. As this area is a floodplain of the Mississippi, many ...
Natural gas-fired power stations in Minnesota (1 P) Nuclear power plants in Minnesota (3 P)
Power generation. Nameplate capacity. 2238 MW. [edit on Wikidata] The Sherburne County Generating Station, also known as Sherco, is a large coal-fired power plant on the banks of the Mississippi River in Becker, Minnesota, which is in Sherburne County. Its three units have a combined capacity of 2,238 megawatts, [1] making it the largest power ...
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Elk River Station is an energy-from-waste plant operating in Elk River, Minnesota that generates 35 to 42 megawatts of electrical power. The site was originally built as a coal and oil -fired facility in 1950, then construction began on a nuclear power plant (boiling water reactor) in 1959. [1] The nuclear reactor was small (22 MW [1]) and only ...
Southeast Steam Plant. / 44.98083°N 93.24917°W / 44.98083; -93.24917. The Southeast Steam Plant, formerly known as the Twin City Rapid Transit Company Steam Power Plant, is a combined heat and power plant on the Mississippi River in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States owned by the University of Minnesota .