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Story City Wind Project

Wind power plant · Story County, Iowa

Nameplate capacity
1.5 MW
Rank in Iowa
#293
of 305 plants
In service since
2010
October 2010

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Hamilton Wind Energy LLC
County
Story County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.01%
Rank among wind plants in Iowa
#121 of 123
EIA plant code
58927

Generating units

Individual generating units at Story City Wind Project
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
WT01Onshore Wind Turbine1.5 MW1.5 MW2010Operating

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 Iowa power plants · What Iowa actually generates