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Happy Jack Windpower Project

Wind power plant · Laramie County, Wyoming

Nameplate capacity
29 MW
Rank in Wyoming
#49
of 71 plants
In service since
2008
August 2008

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Duke Energy Renewables Services
County
Laramie County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.23%
Rank among wind plants in Wyoming
#27 of 28
EIA plant code
56960

Generating units

Individual generating units at Happy Jack Windpower Project
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
HJW01Onshore Wind Turbine29 MW29 MW2008Operating

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 29 MW solar plant and a 29 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 Wyoming power plants · What Wyoming actually generates