Palouse

Wind power plant · Whitman County, Washington

Nameplate capacity
105 MW
Rank in Washington
#51
of 139 plants
In service since
2012
December 2012

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Onward Energy
County
Whitman County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.33%
Rank among wind plants in Washington
#14 of 23
EIA plant code
57530

Generating units

Individual generating units at Palouse
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Onshore Wind Turbine105 MW105 MW2012Operating

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 105 MW solar plant and a 105 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 Washington power plants · What Washington actually generates