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Beaver Ridge Wind

Wind power plant · Waldo County, Maine

Nameplate capacity
4.5 MW
Rank in Maine
#158
of 274 plants
In service since
2008
November 2008

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
CPV Beaver Ridge Wind LLC
County
Waldo County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.07%
Rank among wind plants in Maine
#21 of 22
EIA plant code
57130

Generating units

Individual generating units at Beaver Ridge Wind
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
BR1Onshore Wind Turbine4.5 MW4.5 MW2008Operating

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 4.5 MW solar plant and a 4.5 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 Maine power plants · What Maine actually generates