Sandy Ridge Wind Farm
Wind power plant · Blair County, Pennsylvania
Nameplate capacity
50 MW
Rank in Pennsylvania
#100
of 273 plants
In service since
2012
February 2012
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Algonquin Power Co
- County
- Blair County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.09%
- Rank among wind plants in Pennsylvania
- #15 of 27
- EIA plant code
- 57285
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 50 MW | 48 MW | 2012 | 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 Pennsylvania
| Lake Lynn Hydro Station | Hydro | 51 MW |
| South Chestnut LLC | Wind | 50 MW |
| Foster Wheeler Mt Carmel Cogen | Coal | 47 MW |
| Hunlock Unit 4 | Natural gas | 44 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 Pennsylvania power plants · What Pennsylvania actually generates