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Freeborn County, Minnesota

Freeborn County, Minnesota has 9 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 7 operating plants totaling 428.3 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 350 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 421.8 MW across 3 projects. 2 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
9
power projects, planned and operating
350MW
planned generation, 2 projects
428.3MW
operating generation, 7 projects
2
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Freeborn 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 Steele no data centers Waseca no data centers Faribault no data centers Mower 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
82%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 350 MW planned across 2 projects against 428.3 MW operating, 2 of the planned projects already late.

Operating generation428.3 MW
Planned generation350 MW

Technology mix

9 projects, 778.3 MW planned and operating

Wind421.8 MW3 projects, 54%
Solar206.5 MW5 projects, 27%
Battery Storage150 MW1 project, 19%
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Power generation in the county

7 plants operate inside Freeborn County, 428.3 MW of wind and solar. The queue adds 350 MW across 2 projects, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Freeborn County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 421.8 MW 3 projects
SolarOperating 6.5 MW 4 projects
SolarPlanned 200 MW 1 project
Battery StoragePlanned 150 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating3421.8
SolarOperating46.5
SolarPlanned1200
Battery StoragePlanned1150
Operating: 428.3 MW. Planned: 350 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 778.3 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
0100200300400 350 2025
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20252350
2 projects, 350 MW, were due before 2026

Freeborn County against its neighbors

None of the 4 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Mower County has the most operating generation among them, 1.1 GW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Mower County 0
0
1,145
1,332 0x
Freeborn County this page 0
0
428
350 0x
Steele County 0
0
125
0 0x
Faribault County 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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What changed since June 4, 2026

1 project in Freeborn County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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added to a queue, 0 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
1
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 250 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Freeborn County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 1 change.

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County: Freeborn County, MNSince June 4, 2026 1 change
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Every record in Freeborn County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 9 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Freeborn County, MNStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 9 records
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