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Elk River Wind

Wind power plant · Butler County, Kansas

Nameplate capacity
150 MW
Rank in Kansas
#48
of 192 plants
In service since
2005
December 2005

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Avangrid Power LLC
County
Butler County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.71%
Rank among wind plants in Kansas
#33 of 52
EIA plant code
56303

Generating units

Individual generating units at Elk River Wind
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Onshore Wind Turbine150 MW150 MW2005Operating

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 150 MW solar plant and a 150 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