Western Plains Wind Farm
Wind power plant · Ford County, Kansas
Nameplate capacity
281 MW
Rank in Kansas
#20
of 192 plants
In service since
2017
March 2017
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Evergy Kansas Central, Inc
- County
- Ford County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 1.33%
- Rank among wind plants in Kansas
- #9 of 52
- EIA plant code
- 60689
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 281 MW | 281 MW | 2017 | 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
| Diamond Vista Wind Project, LLC | Wind | 299 MW |
| Iron Star Wind Project | Wind | 298 MW |
| Solomon Forks Wind Project, LLC | Wind | 276 MW |
| Garden City | Natural gas | 256 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 281 MW solar plant and a 281 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