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Fossil Gulch

Wind power plant · Gooding County, Idaho

Nameplate capacity
11 MW
Rank in Idaho
#85
of 155 plants
In service since
2005
February 2005

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation
County
Gooding County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.16%
Rank among wind plants in Idaho
#30 of 33
EIA plant code
56308

Generating units

Individual generating units at Fossil Gulch
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Onshore Wind Turbine11 MW11 MW2005Operating

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 11 MW solar plant and a 11 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 Idaho power plants · What Idaho actually generates