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We create electricity from coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, oil, solar, and wind facilities. We also purchase electricity from the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, energy market when buying it is more economical than generating it ourselves. This mix ensures reliable, low-cost, and increasingly clean electricity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Solway Solar
Solway Solar is a 50-megawatt (MW) solar generation facility we plan to build on land we own in Lammers Township, Minnesota. It’s our second large-scale solar investment, modeled closely after Hoot Lake Solar, which began operating in 2023.
Hoot Lake Solar
Hoot Lake Solar is our 49-megawatt (MW) solar generation facility in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. After years of planning and 16 months of construction, Hoot Lake Solar became fully operational in 2023.
Small-scale solar
Two of our small-scale solar facilities, Blue Heron Solar near Ottertail, Minnesota, and Blue Jay Solar in Jamestown, North Dakota, began generating energy in 2020. They're each almost 40 kilowatts in size.
In early 2024 we began construction of 15 small scale solar arrays on our property or on interested customers property. These projects will showcase the potential for solar energy throughout our Minnesota service area and help us meet the state’s small-scale solar energy objectives.
Blue Heron Solar
Blue Jay Solar
Publicly Owned Property Solar program
To help meet the 10% carveout in the Minnesota Solar Energy Standard, we offer our Publicly Owned Property Solar program to Minnesota customers. This program offers cash incentives to publicly owned facilities that install qualifying solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.
Home and business solar installations
State incentives, special rates, and tax credits are available for qualifying solar installations connected to our power grid. And if you don’t consume all of the solar energy you produce, we’ll credit the excess generation on your bill through our Net Metering Rate. If your solar PV system capacity is less than 40 kilowatts (kW), we purchase excess generation at retail rates. If your solar PV system capacity is greater than 40 kW, we purchase excess generation at our avoided cost.