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King Pine wind farm Maine: 1,000 [95] Clearwater wind farm Montana: 750 [96] High Banks Wind Farm (2023) Kansas: 600 [97] Young Wind Farm Texas: 500 [98] Chevelon Butte wind farm Arizona: 477 [99] Alle-Catt wind farm New York: 340 [100] Boswell Springs Wind Farm (2023) Wyoming: 331 [101] Thunderhead Wind Energy Nebraska: 300 [102] Seven Cowboy ...
Wind power is a branch of the energy industry that has expanded quickly in the United States over the last several years. [ 1 ] From January through December 2023, 425.2 terawatt-hours were generated by wind power, or 10.18% of electricity in the United States. [ 2 ] The average wind turbine generates enough electricity in 46 minutes to power ...
Abandoned, postponed or decommissioned. Cape Wind (Massachusetts) [73] Delaware Offshore Wind Farm [74][75][76] Fisherman's Energy Atlantic City Windfarm [77][78] (New Jersey). Groundbreaking for the onshore portion of the project took place in December 2014. [79][80] It was postponed in July 2017. [81]
Block Island Wind Farm was the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States, [ 5 ] located 3.8 mi (6.1 km) from Block Island, Rhode Island in the Atlantic Ocean. The five-turbine, 30 MW project was developed by Deepwater Wind, now known as Ørsted US Offshore Wind. Construction began in 2015, and in late summer 2016, five Alstom ...
As of 2022, the US had 0.042 GW of offshore wind power, [ 4 ] in addition to which Vineyard Wind started coming online in stages on January 2, 2024. [ 5 ] Wind energy lease areas off the southern coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island as of October, 2022. There is more than 16 GW of capacity planned for the Atlantic Coast.
The Alta Wind Energy Center is a wind farm located in Tehachapi Pass of the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California. As of 2022, it is the largest wind farm in the United States, [ 1 ] with a combined installed capacity of 1,550 MW (2,080,000 hp). The project, being developed near Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm — site of the first large ...
The wind farm is composed of 4,930 [2] relatively small wind turbines of various types, making it at one time the largest wind farm in the world in terms of capacity. Altamont Pass is still one of the largest concentration of wind turbines in the world, with a capacity of 576 megawatts (MW), producing about 125 MW on average and 1.1 terawatt ...
Vineyard Wind 1 is an offshore wind farm under construction in U.S. federal waters in the Atlantic Ocean in Bureau of Ocean Energy Management -designated Lease Area OCS-A 0520, about 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi) south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts. The array is designed to include 62 Haliade-X wind turbines manufactured ...