Smoky Hills Wind Project Phase I
Wind power plant · Lincoln County, Kansas
Nameplate capacity
101 MW
Rank in Kansas
#64
of 192 plants
In service since
2008
December 2008
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Smoky Hills Wind Farm I LLC
- County
- Lincoln County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.48%
- Rank among wind plants in Kansas
- #43 of 52
- EIA plant code
- 56488
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 101 MW | 101 MW | 2008 | 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
| Goodman Energy Center | Natural gas | 104 MW |
| Osawatomie | Natural gas | 102 MW |
| Central Plains Wind Farm | Wind | 99 MW |
| Ensign Wind LLC | Wind | 99 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 101 MW solar plant and a 101 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