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Rock County, Minnesota

Rock County, Minnesota has 11 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 7 operating plants totaling 328.5 MW and 4 planned projects totaling 582 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 318.8 MW across 4 projects. 2 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
11
power projects, planned and operating
582MW
planned generation, 4 projects
328.5MW
operating generation, 7 projects
2
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Rock County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 3 of its 3 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Rock no data centers Murray no data centers Pipestone no data centers Nobles 400 MW
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
1.8times

more planned than operating generation in Rock County. 4 projects in the queue would add 582 MW to the 328.5 MW operating today, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Operating generation328.5 MW
Planned generation582 MW

Technology mix

11 projects, 910.5 MW planned and operating

Wind318.8 MW4 projects, 35%
Solar280 MW2 projects, 31%
Other230 MW1 project, 25%
2 other technologies81.7 MW4 projects, 9%
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Power generation in the county

7 plants operate inside Rock County, 328.5 MW of wind and oil. The queue adds 582 MW across 4 projects, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Rock County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 318.8 MW 4 projects
SolarPlanned 280 MW 2 projects
OtherPlanned 230 MW 1 project
Battery StoragePlanned 72 MW 1 project
OilOperating 9.7 MW 3 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating4318.8
SolarPlanned2280
OtherPlanned1230
Battery StoragePlanned172
OilOperating39.7
Operating: 328.5 MW. Planned: 582 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 910.5 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 80 2024 200 2025 2026 230 2027 72 2028
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2024180
20251200
202600
20271230
2028172
2 projects, 280 MW, were due before 2026

Rock County against its neighbors

Nobles County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 400 MW. 3 of the 3 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Nobles County 1
400
509
400 0.79x
Pipestone County 0
0
385
125 0x
Murray County 0
0
359
900 0x
Rock County this page 0
0
329
582 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

2 projects in Rock County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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1
added to a queue, 230 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
1
slipped its in-service date, 72 MW

Every change in Rock County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 2 changes.

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County: Rock County, MNSince June 4, 2026 2 changes
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Every record in Rock County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 11 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Rock County, MNStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 11 records
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