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Wake Wind Energy Center

Wind power plant · Crosby County, Texas

Nameplate capacity
257 MW
Rank in Texas
#204
of 1,071 plants
In service since
2016
October 2016

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Southern Power Co
County
Crosby County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.13%
Rank among wind plants in Texas
#45 of 228
EIA plant code
58766

Generating units

Individual generating units at Wake Wind Energy Center
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Onshore Wind Turbine257 MW257 MW2016Operating

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 257 MW solar plant and a 257 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