How many solar farms are in Minnesota?

Minnesota has 550 operating utility-scale solar farms with 2.2 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.

What is the largest solar farm in Minnesota?

Sherco Solar III in Sherburne County, Minnesota is the largest, at 250 MW. It came online in 2026.

How many solar farms were built in Minnesota in 2025?

24 solar farms came online in Minnesota in 2025, with 264 MW of capacity.

Who is developing solar farms in Minnesota?

Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.

Solar farms in Minnesota

Minnesota has 550 operating solar farms with 2.2 GW of capacity. 24 came online in 2025.

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See planned solar farms in Minnesota

Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

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Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

Minnesota had 31 solar farms online in 2016 and 550 in 2026

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Solar farms online at the end of each year. Source: EIA-860M, compiled by Cleanview.

The 10 largest solar farms in Minnesota

Operating, by capacity

#	Solar farm	County	Year online	Capacity
1	Sherco Solar III	Sherburne County	2026	250 MW
2	Sherco Solar II	Sherburne County	2025	237 MW
3	Sherco Solar I	Sherburne County	2024	223 MW
4	North Star Solar Project	Chisago County	2016	100 MW
5	Marshall Solar Energy Project	Lyon County	2017	62 MW
6	Louise Solar	Mower County	2024	50 MW
7	Hoot Lake Solar	Otter Tail County	2023	50 MW
8	Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend, LLC	Dakota County	2023	45 MW
9	Fillmore County Solar Project	Fillmore County	2024	45 MW
10	Sylvan Solar	Cass County	2023	15 MW

Solar farms that came online most recently in Minnesota

Newest first

#	Solar farm	County	Year online	Capacity
1	Ringe	Olmsted County	2026	3 MW
2	Northern Sun	Rice County	2026	1 MW
3	Sherco Solar III	Sherburne County	2026	250 MW
4	Novel Bo Hu 1 Solar (CSG)	Rice County	2026	1 MW
5	Novel Brock Solar LLC CSG	Yellow Medicine County	2025	1 MW
6	Novel Stumpf 1 Solar CSG	Goodhue County	2025	1 MW
7	Enterprise MN - Buscho CSG	Steele County	2025	1 MW
8	Enterprise MN - Ferche CSG	Stearns County	2025	1 MW
9	Enterprise MN - Hu's on First CSG	Rice County	2025	1 MW
10	Grand Meadow (PV)	Mower County	2025	3 MW

The developer behind each project is on paid plans. See plans

How Cleanview tracks solar farms

Operating solar farms come from the EIA's monthly survey of power plants. Planned projects come from the grid operators' interconnection queues. We research who is developing each one, since a queue lists a project company, not its owner.

Questions about solar farms in Minnesota

How many solar farms are in Minnesota?: Minnesota has 550 operating utility-scale solar farms with 2.2 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.
What is the largest solar farm in Minnesota?: Sherco Solar III in Sherburne County, Minnesota is the largest, at 250 MW. It came online in 2026.
How many solar farms were built in Minnesota in 2025?: 24 solar farms came online in Minnesota in 2025, with 264 MW of capacity.
Who is developing solar farms in Minnesota?: Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.