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BATTERY STORAGE · MISONobles BESS
Nobles BESS is a 314 MW battery storage request in interconnection study in the MISO interconnection queue, in Nobles County, Minnesota, connecting to Xcel Energy.
Queue statusIn planning
- PlanningQueued Aug 2025 (current stage)
- Consented (not yet reached)
- Construction (not yet reached)
- OperatingTarget Apr 2028 (not yet reached)
- Closed (not yet reached)
Studies assess what grid upgrades the project would need and who pays for them. A signed interconnection agreement is the main step before construction.
Request details
- Queue ID
- E0040
- Grid region
- MISO (Midcontinent)
- Utility / transmission owner
- Xcel Energy
- Developer
- Xcel Energy
- Connection point (POI)
- Nobles County 345kV Substation
- Location
- Nobles County, Minnesota
- Technology
- Battery: 314 MW
- Total requested
- 314 MW
- Study phase
- Request Status: Active; Post GIA Status: Not started
- Queue status
- Active
- Entered queue
- 6 August 2025
- Proposed online date
- April 2028
Location
Marker shows the centre of Nobles County; the queue data does not give exact sites.
Other requests in Nobles County
- Solar project J1581, Nobles CountySolar · 200 MW · in study
- SurplusBattery storage · 200 MW · in study
- Onshore wind project J512, Nobles CountyOnshore wind · 250 MW · built
- Onshore wind project G162, Nobles CountyOnshore wind · 200 MW · built
- Onshore wind project G287, Nobles CountyOnshore wind · 200 MW · built
- Onshore wind project G602, Nobles CountyOnshore wind · 32.0 MW · built
- Onshore wind project G374, Nobles CountyOnshore wind · 6.0 MW · built
- Other project G140, Nobles CountyOther · 2.0 MW · built
- Other project G270, Nobles CountyOther · 2.0 MW · built
- Other project G142, Nobles CountyOther · 2.0 MW · built
- Onshore wind project G385, Nobles CountyOnshore wind · 2.0 MW · built
- Onshore wind project J971, Nobles CountyOnshore wind · 250 MW · withdrawn
Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Queued Up, data through end of 2025, compiled from ISO/RTO and utility queues. Check the grid operator's own queue for the latest status. Report a problem