Buffalo Gap 3 Wind Farm
Wind power plant · Nolan County, Texas
Nameplate capacity
170 MW
Rank in Texas
#383
of 1,071 plants
In service since
2008
August 2008
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- AES Distributed Energy
- County
- Nolan County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.08%
- Rank among wind plants in Texas
- #126 of 228
- EIA plant code
- 56638
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEN1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 170 MW | 170 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.
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| Concho Valley Solar, LLC | Solar | 173 MW |
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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 170 MW solar plant and a 170 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 Texas power plants · What Texas actually generates