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Bison 4 Wind Energy Center

Wind power plant · Morton County, North Dakota

Nameplate capacity
205 MW
Rank in North Dakota
#11
of 63 plants
In service since
2015
January 2015

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
ALLETE, Inc.
County
Morton County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
1.83%
Rank among wind plants in North Dakota
#3 of 42
EIA plant code
58872

Generating units

Individual generating units at Bison 4 Wind Energy Center
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
BISO4Onshore Wind Turbine205 MW202 MW2015Operating

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 205 MW solar plant and a 205 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 North Dakota power plants · What North Dakota actually generates