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Power plant · Coal Retired

Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 1948
Net generation, 2015: -1,885 MWh
Grid: 161 kV to Rochester Public Utilities (MISO)
Location: Olmsted County, Minnesota
Operated by: Rochester Public UtilitiesSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2015

Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2015

Gas
Coal

Operations detail

Details

Who’s behind it

Owner: Rochester Public UtilitiesSource100.0%, EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT), as of Dec 31, 2023

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Technology: Coal source: “Conventional Steam Coal”
Age: 78 years since 1948

All 3 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Attributes
Attribute	Value
Gem	Parents Name Rochester Public Utilities Share pct 100 Gem entity id E100000002312 Unit ids G100000113009 Location id L100000104005
EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP)	EPA FRS ID 110000426469 Subparts reported C NAICS code 221330 Subpart PP (CO2 supply) No Subpart RR (geologic sequestration) No Subpart UU (CO2 injection) No Reporting year 2023 GHGRP facility ID 1000695
Balancing authority code	MISO

Retirement

Retired: December 2015
Capacity retired: 99 MW
Generators retired: 4

Generators that retired or are scheduled to retire
Generator	Technology	Nameplate	State	Date
1	Conventional Steam Coal	8 MW	Retired	December 2015
2	Conventional Steam Coal	12 MW	Retired	December 2015
3	Conventional Steam Coal	25 MW	Retired	December 2015
4	Conventional Steam Coal	54 MW	Retired	December 2015

Grid

Grid voltage at the plant: 161 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner: Rochester Public Utilities
Balancing authority: Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc..
NERC region: MRO

Transmission lines within 15 mi (10)

Chester 161 kV line 161 kV · 1.5 mi
Chester - Zumbro River 161 kV 161 kV · 2.2 mi
Chester - North Rochester 161 kV 161 kV · 4.0 mi
Chester 161 kV line 161 kV · 4.2 mi
Chester - Adams 161 kV 161 kV · 4.2 mi
Northern Hills 161 kV line 161 kV · 4.4 mi
North Rochester - Northern Hills 161 kV 161 kV · 5.3 mi
Byron - Maple Leaf 161 kV 161 kV · 6.3 mi
North Rochester - Briggs Road 345 kV 345 kV · 9.8 mi
Byron 161 kV line 161 kV · 10.3 mi

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

Dec 2015 Stated Units 1, 2, 3, 4 scheduled to retire, 99 MW · EIA-860M
1948 In service · EIA-860M

Sources

6 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

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.
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
EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

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Kalmar Under construction	Solar	5.8 mi	2.5
Ringe Under construction	Solar	6.3 mi	2.5
Novel Loren Solar LLC CSG Postponed	Solar	11.3 mi	1

Sources EIA-860M

Sources

EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026

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