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Elk Wind Farm

Wind power plant · Delaware County, Iowa

Nameplate capacity
41 MW
Rank in Iowa
#113
of 305 plants
In service since
2011
December 2011

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation
County
Delaware County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.16%
Rank among wind plants in Iowa
#76 of 123
EIA plant code
57417

Generating units

Individual generating units at Elk Wind Farm
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
NORDOnshore Wind Turbine41 MW41 MW2011Operating

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 41 MW solar plant and a 41 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 Iowa power plants · What Iowa actually generates