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Montfort Wind Energy Center

Wind power plant · Iowa County, Wisconsin

Nameplate capacity
30 MW
Rank in Wisconsin
#77
of 278 plants
In service since
2002
June 2002

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Wisconsin Electric Power Co
County
Iowa County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.15%
Rank among wind plants in Wisconsin
#8 of 12
EIA plant code
55742

Generating units

Individual generating units at Montfort Wind Energy Center
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
ER15Onshore Wind Turbine30 MW30 MW2002Operating

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 30 MW solar plant and a 30 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 Wisconsin power plants · What Wisconsin actually generates