Central Plains Wind Farm
Wind power plant · Wichita County, Kansas
Nameplate capacity
99 MW
Rank in Kansas
#65
of 192 plants
In service since
2009
March 2009
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Evergy Kansas Central, Inc
- County
- Wichita County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.47%
- Rank among wind plants in Kansas
- #44 of 52
- EIA plant code
- 56818
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 99 MW | 99 MW | 2009 | 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 Kansas
| Osawatomie | Natural gas | 102 MW |
| Smoky Hills Wind Project Phase I | Wind | 101 MW |
| Ensign Wind LLC | Wind | 99 MW |
| Clifton | Natural gas | 88 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 99 MW solar plant and a 99 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 Kansas power plants · What Kansas actually generates