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Faribault County, Minnesota

Faribault County, Minnesota has 19 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 16 operating plants totaling 60.4 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 450 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 301.8 MW across 3 projects. 1 planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
19
power projects, planned and operating
450MW
planned generation, 3 projects
60.4MW
operating generation, 16 projects
1
planned project past its listed in-service date
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Faribault County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 4 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Freeborn no data centers Martin no data centers Waseca no data centers Faribault no data centers Blue Earth no data centers
no data center MWunder 100 MW100 to 1,000 MW1,000 to 5,000 MW5,000 to 15,000 MW15,000 MW or more no page yet

Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers

Headline finding
7.5times

more planned than operating generation in Faribault County. 3 projects in the queue would add 450 MW to the 60.4 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Operating generation60.4 MW
Planned generation450 MW

Technology mix

19 projects, 510.4 MW planned and operating

Solar301.8 MW3 projects, 59%
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)150 MW1 project, 29%
Wind38.6 MW3 projects, 8%
2 other technologies20 MW12 projects, 4%
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Power generation in the county

16 plants operate inside Faribault County, 60.4 MW. The queue adds 450 MW across 3 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Faribault County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 1.8 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 300 MW 2 projects
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)Planned 150 MW 1 project
WindOperating 38.6 MW 3 projects
OilOperating 12.8 MW 8 projects
Natural GasOperating 7.2 MW 4 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating11.8
SolarPlanned2300
Solar + Storage (Hybrid)Planned1150
WindOperating338.6
OilOperating812.8
Natural GasOperating47.2
Operating: 60.4 MW. Planned: 450 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 510.4 MW.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.
Figure 2

Planned generation by listed in-service year

MW. Years before 2026 are past due.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
0100200300 Snapshot year 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 300 2027
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20231150
202400
202500
202600
20272300
1 project, 150 MW, was due before 2026

Faribault County against its neighbors

None of the 4 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Martin County has the most operating generation among them, 844.8 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Martin County 0
0
845
300 0x
Blue Earth County 0
0
826
300 0x
Freeborn County 0
0
428
350 0x
Faribault County this page 0
0
60
450 0x
Waseca County 0
0
38
5 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.

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Every record in Faribault County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 19 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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