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Blue Canyon Windpower

Wind power plant in Oklahoma, United States of America. Approximate location 34.8508, -98.5773.

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Blue Canyon Windpower is a 74 MW wind power plant in Oklahoma, United States of America. It is operated by Blue Canyon Windpower LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 231 GWh, it can supply roughly 66,028 homes. It ranks #2332 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2004, it is around 22 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).

74MW installed capacity
231GWh reported / yr
66,028homes powered
2004commissioned (~22 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056081.

Reported generation trend

2013: 262 GWh20132014: 272 GWh20142015: 236 GWh20152016: 254 GWh20162017: 248 GWh20172018: 231 GWh20182019: 231 GWh2019272 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Blue Canyon Windpower LLC.

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

16.1°Cannual mean temp
1,749heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,068cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
393 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 6 °CFM: 11 °CMA: 16 °CAM: 21 °CMJ: 25 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 17 °CON: 10 °CND: 5 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 29% below 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: 39/100 — 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 #553 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 34.8508, -98.5773 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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