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Waseca County, Minnesota

Waseca County, Minnesota has 29 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 28 operating plants totaling 37.8 MW and 1 planned project totaling 5 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 37.9 MW across 25 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
29
power projects, planned and operating
5MW
planned generation, 1 project
37.8MW
operating generation, 28 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Waseca 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.

Freeborn no data centers Rice 120 MW Le Sueur no data centers Steele 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
13%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 5 MW planned across 1 project against 37.8 MW operating.

Operating generation37.8 MW
Planned generation5 MW

Technology mix

29 projects, 42.8 MW planned and operating

Solar37.9 MW25 projects, 89%
Oil4.9 MW4 projects, 11%
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Power generation in the county

28 plants operate inside Waseca County, 37.8 MW of solar and oil. The queue adds 5 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Waseca County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 32.9 MW 24 projects
SolarPlanned 5 MW 1 project
OilOperating 4.9 MW 4 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating2432.9
SolarPlanned15
OilOperating44.9
Operating: 37.8 MW. Planned: 5 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 42.8 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
0246 Snapshot year 5 2026
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YearPlanned projectsMW
202615
No planned project is past its listed year

Waseca County against its neighbors

Rice County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 120 MW. 6 of the 6 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Rice County 1
120
404
6 0.3x
Blue Earth County 0
0
826
300 0x
Freeborn County 0
0
428
350 0x
Steele County 0
0
125
0 0x
Faribault County 0
0
60
450 0x
Le Sueur County 0
0
48
0 0x
Waseca County this page 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.

7 counties shown

What changed since June 4, 2026

1 project in Waseca 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, 5 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
0
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 0 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Waseca County

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

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

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 29 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Waseca County, MNStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 29 records
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