Blue Earth County, Minnesota
Blue Earth County, Minnesota has 41 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 39 operating plants totaling 825.5 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 300 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 747.9 MW across 5 projects.
Blue Earth County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 7 of its 7 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.
Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers
of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 300 MW planned across 2 projects against 825.5 MW operating.
Technology mix
41 projects, 1.1 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
39 plants operate inside Blue Earth County, 825.5 MW. The queue adds 300 MW across 2 projects.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Blue Earth County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas | Operating | 5 | 747.9 |
| Solar | Operating | 25 | 34 |
| Solar | Planned | 2 | 300 |
| Municipal Solid Waste | Operating | 2 | 25 |
| Oil | Operating | 5 | 11.8 |
| Hydro | Operating | 2 | 6.8 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
| 2027 | 0 | 0 |
| 2028 | 0 | 0 |
| 2029 | 0 | 0 |
| 2030 | 1 | 299 |
Blue Earth County against its neighbors
None of the 7 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Martin County has the most operating generation among them, 844.8 MW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martin County | 0 | 300 | 0x | ||
| Blue Earth County this page | 0 | 300 | 0x | ||
| Brown County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Faribault County | 0 | 450 | 0x | ||
| Le Sueur County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Waseca County | 0 | 5 | 0x | ||
| Watonwan County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Nicollet County | 0 | 0 | 0x |
Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.
8 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
2 projects in Blue Earth County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Blue Earth County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 2 changes.
| Project | Change | Technology | MW | Previous date | New date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rows are hidden on public pages. Members see the project behind each change, its developer and the dates that moved.
Every record in Blue Earth County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 41 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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