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Top Hat Wind

Wind power plant · Logan County, Illinois

Nameplate capacity
204 MW
Rank in Illinois
#61
of 580 plants
In service since
2025
December 2025

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Appalachian Power Co
County
Logan County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.39%
Rank among wind plants in Illinois
#15 of 56
EIA plant code
69225

Generating units

Individual generating units at Top Hat Wind
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
TPHATOnshore Wind Turbine204 MW204 MW2025Operating

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 204 MW solar plant and a 204 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 Illinois power plants · What Illinois actually generates