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BATTERY STORAGE · MISOSherco South BESS
Sherco South BESS is a 314 MW battery storage request in interconnection study in the MISO interconnection queue, in Sherburne County, Minnesota, connecting to Xcel Energy.
Queue statusIn planning
- PlanningQueued Aug 2025 (current stage)
- Consented (not yet reached)
- Construction (not yet reached)
- OperatingTarget Jul 2027 (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
- E0041
- Grid region
- MISO (Midcontinent)
- Utility / transmission owner
- Xcel Energy
- Developer
- Xcel Energy
- Connection point (POI)
- Sherburne Co 345kV Subtation
- Location
- Sherburne County, Minnesota
- Technology
- Battery: 314 MW
- Total requested
- 314 MW
- Service type
- Network resource (NRIS)
- Study phase
- Request Status: Active; Post GIA Status: Not started
- Queue status
- Active
- Entered queue
- 6 August 2025
- Proposed online date
- July 2027
Location
Marker shows the centre of Sherburne County; the queue data does not give exact sites.
Other requests in Sherburne County
- Replacing 710 MW of coal generation with solar at Sherco Unit 2; Sherco Unit 2Other · 710 MW · in study
- Gas project J3289, Sherburne CountyGas · 235 MW · in study
- Solar project J1605, Sherburne CountySolar · 200 MW · in study
- Solar project J3439, Sherburne CountySolar · 100 MW · in study
- Gas project G389, Sherburne CountyGas · 200 MW · built
- Coal project G930, Sherburne CountyCoal · 60.0 MW · built
- Solar project J1337, Sherburne CountySolar · 300 MW · withdrawn
- Solar project J1531, Sherburne CountySolar · 200 MW · withdrawn
- Coal project G169, Sherburne CountyCoal · 120 MW · withdrawn
- Gas project G390, Sherburne CountyGas · 100 MW · withdrawn
- Solar project J349, Sherburne CountySolar · 100 MW · withdrawn
- Solar project J547, Sherburne CountySolar · 100 MW · withdrawn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