Cottonwood Wind Energy Center
Wind power plant · Webster County, Nebraska
Nameplate capacity
90 MW
Rank in Nebraska
#30
of 138 plants
In service since
2017
November 2017
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Cottonwood Wind Project
- County
- Webster County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.74%
- Rank among wind plants in Nebraska
- #11 of 33
- EIA plant code
- 61407
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTNWD | Onshore Wind Turbine | 90 MW | 90 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 Nebraska
| Platte | Coal | 110 MW |
| Canaday | Natural gas | 109 MW |
| Elkhorn Ridge Wind LLC | Wind | 81 MW |
| Platteview Solar LLC | Solar | 81 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 90 MW solar plant and a 90 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 Nebraska power plants · What Nebraska actually generates