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Springfield Wind

Wind power plant · Baca County, Colorado

Nameplate capacity
1.5 MW
Rank in Colorado
#293
of 326 plants
In service since
2004
February 2004

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Arkansas River Power Authority
County
Baca County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among wind plants in Colorado
#33 of 33
EIA plant code
67160

Generating units

Individual generating units at Springfield Wind
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
T1SOnshore Wind Turbine1.5 MW1.5 MW2004Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 1.5 MW solar plant and a 1.5 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Colorado power plants · What Colorado actually generates