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Red Cedar — Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine · Interstate Power and Light CoData Center — Filed · Large load · IA · 4.6 mi awayQTS East Data Center - Temporary Crane — Filed · Large load · IA · 5.4 mi awaySuffolk/DataCenter/MobileCrane/DC5/Laydown — Filed · Large load · IA · 5.7 mi awayQTS Data Center — Filed · Large load · IA · 5.9 mi awayMobile Cranes (Cedar Rapids data centre) — Filed · Large load · IA · 6.2 mi away
  • Combustion
  • Loads
  • In development
  • Retired
  • Size not stated
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, combustion turbine Retired
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1996
Net generation, 2017
-667 MWh
Grid
14 kV to ITC Midwest LLC (MISO)
Location
Linn County, Iowa
Operated by
Interstate Power and Light CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2018
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2018
  • Gas

Operations detail

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Technology
Gas, combustion turbine source: “Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine”
Age
30 years since 1996
1 attribute from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Attributes
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
Capacity retired
22.5 MW
Generators retired
1
Generators that retired or are scheduled to retire
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
1Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine22.5 MWRetiredJune 2018

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
14 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
ITC Midwest LLC
Balancing authority
Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc..
NERC region
MRO
Transmission lines within 15 mi (6)
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 Unit 1 scheduled to retire, 22.5 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

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Around this plant

Nearby

within 15 mi
Projects within 15 mi, nearest first.
ProjectKindAwayMW
Data Center Filed Large load 4.6 mi
QTS East Data Center - Temporary Crane Filed Large load 5.4 mi
Suffolk/DataCenter/MobileCrane/DC5/Laydown Filed Large load 5.7 mi
QTS Data Center Filed Large load 5.9 mi
Mobile Cranes (Cedar Rapids data centre) Filed Large load 6.2 mi

Sources FAA OE/AAA

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