Nameplate capacity
50 MW
Rank in Missouri
#61
of 139 plants
In service since
2008
April 2008
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Cow Branch Wind Power, LLC
- County
- Atchison County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.22%
- Rank among wind plants in Missouri
- #13 of 14
- EIA plant code
- 56536
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 50 MW | 50 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 Missouri
| Higginsville | Natural gas | 52 MW |
| Conception | Wind | 50 MW |
| Bowling Green Renewable Energy Center | Solar | 50 MW |
| Envoy Solar, LLC | Solar | 50 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 50 MW solar plant and a 50 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 Missouri power plants · What Missouri actually generates