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Big Blue — Power plant · Wind · Big Blue Wind Farm LLC (MN)
  • Wind & solar
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Power plant · Wind

Key facts

Power plant · Windran 22% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2012
Net generation, 2025
70,619 MWh
Grid
161 kV to ITC Midwest LLC (MISO)
Location
Faribault County, Minnesota
Operated by
Big Blue Wind Farm LLC (MN)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2012 to 2025

Operations detail

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Technology
Wind source: “Onshore Wind Turbine”
Age
14 years since 2012
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Attributes
AttributeValue
Gem
Unit ids
G100000908884
Location id
L100000906585
Eia plant ids
57289
Grid
Nerc region
MRO
Report year
2025
Grid voltage kv
161
Transmission owner
ITC Midwest LLC
Balancing authority code
MISO
Balancing authority name
Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc..
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025240,952
Capacity factor, 20250.224
Net generation (MWh), 202570,619
Balancing authority codeMISO

Wind turbines

Turbines
18
Turbine capacity (MW)
36
Turbine models
18 Gamesa G97-2.0
Hub height (m)
90
Rotor diameter (m)
97
Year online
2012

Source U.S. Wind Turbine Database

Source

  • U.S. Wind Turbine DatabaseOpen license · retrieved Oct 25, 2026Map services and data are available from U.S. Wind Turbine Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, American Clean Power Association, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb

Attribution

Timeline

  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

5 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · U.S. Wind Turbine Database · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • U.S. Wind Turbine DatabaseOpen license · retrieved Oct 25, 2026Map services and data are available from U.S. Wind Turbine Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, American Clean Power Association, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
  • EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

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