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Bennett Creek Windfarm LLC - Mountain Home

Wind power plant in Idaho, United States of America. Approximate location 43.0536, -115.4803.

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Bennett Creek Windfarm LLC - Mountain Home is a 21 MW wind power plant in Idaho, United States of America. It is operated by Bennett Creek Windfarm LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 40 GWh, it can supply roughly 11,371 homes. It ranks #3626 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2008, it is around 18 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 10.3% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

21MW installed capacity
40GWh reported / yr
11,371homes powered
2008commissioned (~18 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056637.

Reported generation trend

2013: 42 GWh20132014: 45 GWh20142015: 35 GWh20152016: 45 GWh20162017: 39 GWh20172018: 43 GWh20182019: 40 GWh201945 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Bennett Creek Windfarm LLC.

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean continental climate (Köppen Dsb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.9°Cannual mean temp
2,959heating degree-days (base 18°C)
382cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
880 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -1 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 11 °CON: 4 °CND: -1 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 20% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 62/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #770 largest wind power plant of 1139 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1139 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 104,477 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 43.0536, -115.4803 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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