Minnesota’s largest utility, Xcel Energy, is expanding its Sherco Solar project in the state, and that’s going to make it one of the US’s largest solar farms.
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved adding a 250-megawatt (MW) array to the 460 MW solar farm currently being built. The 710 MW project, which is expected to come online at the end of 2025, will become the largest solar farm in the Upper Midwest.
Once online, Sherco Solar is expected to generate enough electricity to power over 150,000 Minnesota homes annually.
Xcel Energy has sited its huge utility-scale solar farm at Sherco, or the Sherburne County Generating Station (pictured above), in Becker. The largest power plant in Minnesota, it’s a three-unit coal-fired plant with a combined capacity of 2,238 MW. The new solar farm is going to replace the capacity…