Los Vientos Windpower III
Wind power plant · Starr County, Texas
Nameplate capacity
200 MW
Rank in Texas
#328
of 1,071 plants
In service since
2015
April 2015
Details
- Primary fuel
- Wind
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operator
- Duke Energy Renewables Services
- County
- Starr County
- Generating units
- 1
- Share of state capacity
- 0.10%
- Rank among wind plants in Texas
- #100 of 228
- EIA plant code
- 59320
Generating units
| Unit | Technology | Nameplate | Summer | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEN1 | Onshore Wind Turbine | 200 MW | 200 MW | 2015 | 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 Texas
| Longhorn Wind | Wind | 200 MW |
| Los Vientos Wind 1A | Wind | 200 MW |
| Los Vientos Windpower IV | Wind | 200 MW |
| Mesquite Wind Power LLC | Wind | 200 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 200 MW solar plant and a 200 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