 | The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject.(February 2023) |
This is a list of the largest onshore wind farms that are currently operational, rated by generating capacity. Also listed are onshore wind farms with notability other than size, and largest proposed projects.
This is a list of the onshore wind farms that are larger than 250 MW in current nameplate capacity. Many of these wind farms have been built in stages, and construction of a further stage may be continuing at some of these sites.
The following table lists some of the largest proposed onshore wind farms, by nameplate capacity.
| Wind farm | Country | State/province | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asian Renewable Energy Hub | Australia | Western Australia | 20°10′S121°19′E / 20.16°S 121.32°E | 7,500 | [92] |
| Walcha Energy Project | Australia | New South Wales | 3,400 | [93] | |
| Corona Wind Projects | United States | New Mexico | 34°15′2″N105°35′44″W / 34.25056°N 105.59556°W | 2,200 | [94] |
| Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind | United States | Wyoming | 1,500 | [95] | |
| Forest Wind | Australia | Queensland | 25°46′34″S152°47′42″E / 25.776°S 152.795°E | 1,200 | [96] [97] |
| ACWA Wind Farm | Egypt | Gabal El Zeit | 1,100 | [98] | |
| Castle Hill Wind Farm | New Zealand | North Island | 860 | [99] | |
| Golden Plains Wind Farm | Australia | Victoria | 800 | [100] | |
| Horizonte Wind | Chile | Antofagasta | 778 | [101] | |
| Monsoon Wind | Laos | Sekong | 600 | [102] | |
| Haymaker Hybrid | United States | Montana | 600 | [95] | |
| Rosepetal Wind | India | Rajasthan | 585 | [103] | |
| Loa Wind Farm | Chile | Antofagasta | 528 | [104] | |
| Aviator Wind | United States | Texas | 525 | [95] | |
| Maverick Creek Wind | United States | Texas | 524 | [95] | |
| Sagamore Wind | United States | New Mexico | 522 | [95] | |
| Zarasfhan Wind | Uzbekistan | Navoi | 500 | [105] | |
| Goyder South | Australia | South Australia | 412 | [106] | |
| Vėjas LT | Lithuania | Kelmė District Municipality | 300 | [107] | |
| Pagėgiai Wind Farm | Lithuania | Pagėgiai Municipality | 248 | [107] | |
| Sopi-Tootsi wind farm | Estonia | Pärnu County | 225 | [108] |
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A wind farm or wind park, or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an extensive area. Wind farms can be either onshore or offshore.
Wind power in Texas, a portion of total energy in Texas, consists of over 150 wind farms, which together have a total nameplate capacity of over 30,000 MW. If Texas were a country, it would rank fifth in the world; the installed wind capacity in Texas exceeds installed wind capacity in all countries but China, the United States, Germany and India. Texas produces the most wind power of any U.S. state. According to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), wind power accounted for at least 15.7% of the electricity generated in Texas during 2017, as wind was 17.4% of electricity generated in ERCOT, which manages 90% of Texas's power. ERCOT set a new wind output record of nearly 19.7 GW at 7:19 pm Central Standard Time on Monday, January 21, 2019.
In 2021 France reached a total of 18,676 megawatts (MW) installed wind power capacity placing France at that time as the world's seventh largest wind power nation by installed capacity, behind the United Kingdom and Brazil and ahead of Canada and Italy. According to the IEA the yearly wind production was 20.2 TWh in 2015, representing almost 23% of the 88.4 TWh from renewable sources in France during that year. Wind provided 4.3% of the country's electricity demand in 2015.
There are a number of wind power projects in the state of Maine, totaling more than 900 megawatts (MW) in capacity. In 2020 they were responsible for 24% of in-state electricity production. In 2019, Maine had more wind capacity than the other five New England states combined, at 923 MW.
At the end of 2015, the installed capacity of wind power in Washington was 3,075 megawatts (MW) with wind power accounting for 7,101 GWh. In 2016, it reached a generation of 8,041 GWh, comprising 7.1% of the electricity generated in the state. In 2023, it had a capacity of 3,407 MW, responsible for 7.75% of generation.
Wind power in Illinois provided nearly 10% of the state's generated electrical power in 2020 powering 1,231,900 homes. At the end of 2020, Illinois had 6,300 megawatts (MW) of wind power installed, ranking fifth among states for installed wind turbine capacity. An additional 1,100 MW of wind power was under construction across the state at the end of 2020.
Wind power in Montana is a growing industry. Montana had over 695 MW of wind generation capability by 2016, responsible for 7.6% of in-state electricity generation.
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 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. Wind power was responsible for 4.8% of in-state electricity production in 2016.
Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC), also known as Mojave Wind Farm, is the third largest onshore wind energy project in the world. 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, 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-scale wind farms installed in the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s—is "a powerful illustration of the growing size and scope of modern wind projects".
Renewable energy in South Dakota involves production of biofuels and generation of electricity from renewable sources of energy such as wind and hydropower. South Dakota is among the states with the highest percentage of electricity generation from renewable resources, typically over 70 percent. In 2011, South Dakota became the first U.S. state to have at least 20% of its electricity generation come from wind power, and by 2022, 84% of its generation was renewable.
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