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Minden Wind Park

Wind power plant · Sanilac County, Michigan

Nameplate capacity
32 MW
Rank in Michigan
#100
of 289 plants
In service since
2012
December 2012

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
DTE Electric Company
County
Sanilac County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.09%
Rank among wind plants in Michigan
#30 of 34
EIA plant code
57852

Generating units

Individual generating units at Minden Wind Park
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Onshore Wind Turbine32 MW32 MW2012Operating

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 32 MW solar plant and a 32 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 Michigan power plants · What Michigan actually generates