Olmsted County, Minnesota
Olmsted County, Minnesota has 58 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 42 operating plants totaling 231 MW and 16 planned projects totaling 1.2 GW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 809.9 MW across 17 projects. 3 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.
Olmsted County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 6 of its 6 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
more planned than operating generation in Olmsted County. 16 projects in the queue would add 1.2 GW to the 231 MW operating today, and 3 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Technology mix
58 projects, 1.4 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
42 plants operate inside Olmsted County, 231 MW. The queue adds 1.2 GW across 16 projects, and 3 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Olmsted County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar | Operating | 10 | 24.9 |
| Solar | Planned | 7 | 785 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 2 | 350 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 12 | 150.4 |
| Natural Gas | Planned | 1 | 7.5 |
| Oil | Operating | 14 | 37.6 |
| Oil | Planned | 6 | 20.1 |
| Municipal Solid Waste | Operating | 3 | 9.6 |
| Other | Operating | 1 | 6.5 |
| Biomass | Operating | 2 | 2 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 100 |
| 2024 | 1 | 100 |
| 2025 | 1 | 150 |
| 2026 | 2 | 5 |
| 2027 | 7 | 224.5 |
| 2028 | 2 | 183.1 |
| 2029 | 2 | 400 |
Olmsted County against its neighbors
None of the 6 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Goodhue County has the most operating generation among them, 1.6 GW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodhue County | 1 | 691 | 0x | ||
| Mower County | 0 | 1,332 | 0x | ||
| Olmsted County this page | 0 | 1,163 | 0x | ||
| Dodge County | 0 | 228 | 0x | ||
| Fillmore County | 0 | 50 | 0x | ||
| Winona County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Wabasha County | 0 | 500 | 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.
7 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
3 projects in Olmsted County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Olmsted County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 3 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 Olmsted County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 58 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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