Wellsburg Wind Project
Wind power plant · Grundy County, Iowa
Nameplate capacity
141 MW
Rank in Iowa
#65
of 305 plants
In service since
2014
December 2014
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- MidAmerican Energy Co
- County
- Grundy County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.57%
- Rank among wind plants in Iowa
- #45 of 123
- EIA plant code
- 58886
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WBWF | Onshore Wind Turbine | 141 MW | 139 MW | 2014 | Operating |
Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.
Similarly sized plants in Iowa
| Garden Wind LLC | Wind | 150 MW |
| Pleasant Creek Unit 2 | Solar | 150 MW |
| Richland (IA) | Wind | 131 MW |
| River Hills | Natural gas | 128 MW |
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 141 MW solar plant and a 141 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