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Fairfax
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oilran 0% of 2025 Standby- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2001
- Net generation, 2025
- 6 MWh
- Grid
- 4 kV to City of Fairfax - (MN) (MISO)
- Location
- Renville County, Minnesota
- Operated by
- City of Fairfax - (MN)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Output
- Oil
Details
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- Technology
- Oil source: “Petroleum Liquids”
- Age
- 25 years since 2001
- Heat rate
- 10,000 Btu/kWh 2025
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Eia status |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 60 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.000 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 10,000 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 6 |
| Balancing authority code | MISO |
Retirement
- Capacity retired
- 1.5 MW
- Generators retired
- 2
- Capacity still in service
- 2 MW
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petroleum Liquids | 0.9 MW | Retired | January 2004 |
| 4 | Petroleum Liquids | 0.6 MW | Retired | January 2004 |
Grid
EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).- Grid voltage at the plant
- 4 kV
- Transmission or distribution system owner
- City of Fairfax - (MN)
- Balancing authority
- Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc..
- NERC region
- MRO
Transmission lines within 15 mi (4)
Can the connection be reused?
A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.
Timeline
- Stated Units 1, 4 scheduled to retire, 1.5 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
4 sourcesSources EIA-860M · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Sources
- EIA-860M
- LBNLYin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Around this plant
Nearby
within 15 mi| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sibley Wind Postponed | Wind | 13.9 mi | 19.5 |
Sources EIA-860M