Bishop Hill III

Wind power plant in Illinois, United States of America. Approximate location 41.2111, -90.276.

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Bishop Hill III is a 119 MW wind power station in Illinois, United States of America. It is operated by Invenergy Services LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 425 GWh, it can supply roughly 121,428 homes. It ranks #1756 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 years old — recently built. 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).

119MW installed capacity
425GWh reported / yr
121,428homes powered
2018commissioned (~8 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0061787.

Reported generation trend

2018: 224 GWh20182019: 425 GWh2019425 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Invenergy Services LLC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.8°Cannual mean temp
3,361heating degree-days (base 18°C)
410cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
241 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -6 °CJF: -3 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 12 °CON: 4 °CND: -3 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 37% 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: 73/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #367 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 41.2111, -90.276 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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