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Bingham Wind

Wind power plant · Piscataquis County, Maine

Nameplate capacity
186 MW
Rank in Maine
#6
of 274 plants
In service since
2016
December 2016

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Onward Energy
County
Piscataquis County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
3.02%
Rank among wind plants in Maine
#1 of 22
EIA plant code
57531

Generating units

Individual generating units at Bingham Wind
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Onshore Wind Turbine186 MW186 MW2016Operating

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 186 MW solar plant and a 186 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