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GRS Pine Bend — Power plant · Biomass · Pine Bend LLCDakota Solar — Postponed · Solar · MN · 3 MW · 4.4 km awayJIMNIST LLC — Built · Large load · MN · 5.9 km awayEAGAN 5 MW DATA CENTER — Built · Large load · MN · 6.2 km awayGladiolus Solar, LLC — Postponed · Solar · MN · 1 MW · 7.6 km awayDATABANK - EAGAN - MSP2 — Built · Large load · MN · 9.1 km awayIRON GATE DATA CENTERS - EAGAN — Built · Large load · MN · 10.8 km awayBlack Dog — Postponed · Gas, combined cycle · MN · 760 MW · 15.6 km away
  • Bioenergy
  • Loads
  • Operating
  • Retired
  • Size not stated
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

GRS Pine Bend

Power plant · Biomass

Key facts

Power plant · Biomassran 6% of 2018 Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1996
Net generation, 2018
9,217 MWh
Location
Dakota County, Minnesota
Operated by
Pine Bend LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2018
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2018
  • Oil
  • Biomass and waste

Operations detail

Details

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Technology
Biomass source: “Landfill Gas”
Age
30 years since 1996
1 attribute from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Balancing authority codeMISO

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusEvery generator EIA lists at this plant has retired. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Retired
June 2018
First unit retired
January 2013
Capacity retired
16.6 MW
Generators retired
3
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
3Landfill Gas6.6 MWRetiredJanuary 2013
1Landfill Gas5 MWRetiredJune 2018
2Landfill Gas5 MWRetiredJune 2018

Grid

EIA-860Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 (Schedule 2).
Balancing authority
MISO
Transmission lines within 25 km (10)
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, 2 scheduled to retire, 10 MW · EIA-860M
  • Stated Unit 3 scheduled to retire, 6.6 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

4 sources

Sources EIA-860M · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • LBNLOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 9, 2026Yin, 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.
  • 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

Every source and license · Attribution

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Around this plant

Nearby

within 25 km
ProjectKindAwayMW
Dakota Solar Postponed Solar 4.4 km 3
JIMNIST LLC Built Large load 5.9 km
EAGAN 5 MW DATA CENTER Built Large load 6.2 km
Gladiolus Solar, LLC Postponed Solar 7.6 km 1
DATABANK - EAGAN - MSP2 Built Large load 9.1 km
IRON GATE DATA CENTERS - EAGAN Built Large load 10.8 km
Black Dog Postponed Gas, combined cycle 15.6 km 760

Sources EIA-860M · EPA ICIS-Air

Sources

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