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Wind power in Indiana was limited to a few small water-pumping windmills on farms until 2008 with construction of Indiana's first utility-scale wind power facility, Goodland (phase I) with a nameplate capacity of 130 MW. As of March of 2024, Indiana had a total of 2,743 MW of wind power capacity installed, ranking it 12th among U.S. states. [1]
Hoosier Wind Farm is a wind farm in Benton County, Indiana. It consists of 53 REpower 2 MW wind turbines , for a total nameplate capacity of 106 MW. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The enXco subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles built the wind farm, with Mortenson Construction 's Renewable Energy Group as the subcontractor. [ 3 ]
Phase I spreads over 26,000 acres (110 km 2) a ten by six mile area since large wind turbines must be spaced at least 5 to 10 rotor diameters apart to avoid wind shadowing. Most of the land between turbines remains productive farmland; only about 250 acres (1.0 km 2) of farmland have been taken out of production by the 121 turbines. [1]
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The Fowler Ridge Wind Farm is a wind farm in Benton County, Indiana, near the city of Fowler, IN about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Lafayette and 90 miles (140 km) northwest of Indianapolis. [1] Fowler Ridge was originally developed in 2005 and 2006 by Orion Energy, LLC (Oakland, CA) and Vision Energy, LLC (Cincinnati, OH) and later sold in ...
Wind farm Offshore BOEM wind energy lease area Receiving state Coordinates Capacity Projected completion Turbines Developer /Utility Regulatory agency Refs TBA: Offshore Northern California OCS-P 0561 63,338 acres (25,632 ha) CA: RWE Offshore Wind Holdings [73] TBA Offshore Northern California OCS-P 0562 69,031 acres (27,936 ha) CA
In August 2006, Duke Energy Indiana finalized its agreement to buy the output of 54 of the wind farm's 87 wind turbines for 20 years. [5] This was the first significant long-term wind power purchase agreement in Indiana. The remaining 33 wind turbines in the wind farm sell their electricity to Duke and Vectren. [5]
Horse Heaven Wind Farm (2022) Washington: 1,150 [92] King Pine wind farm Maine: 1,000 [93] Clearwater wind farm Montana: 750 [94] High Banks Wind Farm (2023) Kansas: 600 [95] Young Wind Farm Texas: 500 [96] Chevelon Butte wind farm Arizona: 477 [97] Alle-Catt wind farm New York: 340 [98] Boswell Springs Wind Farm (2023) Wyoming: 331 [99]