About Us
Minnesota Power is a utility company based in Duluth, Minn., and is owned by 十大靠谱彩票平台, Inc. , a provider of affordable, reliable energy services in the Upper Midwest. Other 十大靠谱彩票平台 businesses include Superior Water, Light & Power ; 十大靠谱彩票平台 Clean Energy ; 十大靠谱彩票平台 Renewable Resources; and BNI Energy .
General Information
- Service territory:
- We provide electricity in a 26,000-square-mile service area in northeastern Minnesota.
- Employees:
- About 1,200
- Customers:
- We serve about 145,000 residential and commercial customers, 15 municipalities and some of the nation’s largest industrial customers.
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Transmission
and distribution lines: -
500 kV: 8 miles
345 kV: 29 miles
250 kV: 465 miles
230 kV: 632 miles
161 kV: 43 miles
138 kV: 128 miles
115 kV: 1,221 miles
Less than 115 kV: 6,216 miles - Substations:
- 164
Generation Facilities
- Coal:
- Boswell Energy Center, Taconite Harbor Energy Center
- Biomass and coal:
- Hibbard Renewable Energy Center
- Biomass, coal & hydro:
- Rapids Energy Center
- Wind:
- Taconite Ridge Energy Center, Bison Wind Energy Center
- Hydro:
- Thomson, Fond du Lac, Scanlon, Knife Falls, Pillager, Sylvan, Little Falls, Blanchard, Prairie River, Winton
- Natural Gas:
- Laskin Energy Center
