- Combustion
- Retired
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- Retired
Sanborn: location and 1 exact-grade project within 15 mi. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Sanborn
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oil Retired- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1947
- Location
- O Brien County, Iowa
- Operated by
- City of Sanborn - (IA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
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- Technology
- Oil source: “Petroleum Liquids”
- Age
- 79 years since 1947
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusEvery generator EIA lists at this plant has retired. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Retired
- January 2003
- Capacity retired
- 1.5 MW
- Generators retired
- 4
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petroleum Liquids | 0.2 MW | Retired | January 2003 |
| 2 | Petroleum Liquids | 0.2 MW | Retired | January 2003 |
| 3 | Petroleum Liquids | 0.5 MW | Retired | January 2003 |
| 4 | Petroleum Liquids | 0.6 MW | Retired | January 2003 |
Grid
Not in EIA-860Grid fieldsEIA-860 states no grid voltage or transmission owner for this plant: its annual file lists plants with a generator in the report year, so a plant that retired earlier is not in it.Transmission lines within 15 mi (3)
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, 3, 4 scheduled to retire, 1.5 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
3 sourcesSources EIA-860M · LBNL · 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.
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Around this plant
Nearby
within 15 mi| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'Brien Wind Postponed | Wind | 2.0 mi | 217.5 |
Sources EIA-860M