Solar power plant in Minnesota, United States of America. Approximate location 44.7964, -93.4296.
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Blue Lake Solar is a 4 MW solar power plant in Minnesota, United States of America. It is operated by Cypress Creek Renewables. Based on reported annual generation of 4 GWh, it can supply roughly 1,171 homes. It ranks #6605 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2017, it is around 9 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 48,735 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 11,360 cars driven for a year. In context, solar supplies about 8.6% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0060632.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to US EPA GHGRP.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Cypress Creek Renewables. All plants by this company →
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 73% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 87/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (estimate).
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #1485 largest solar power plant of 3283 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 3283 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 37,970 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 44.7964, -93.4296 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
