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Broken Bow Wind LLC

Wind power plant in Nebraska, United States of America. Approximate location 41.4547, -99.5681.

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Broken Bow Wind LLC is a 80 MW wind power plant in Nebraska, United States of America. It is operated by NRG Energy Gas & Wind Holdings Inc. Based on reported annual generation of 277 GWh, it can supply roughly 79,200 homes. It ranks #2239 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2013, it is around 13 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).

80MW installed capacity
277GWh reported / yr
79,200homes powered
2013commissioned (~13 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0057593.

Reported generation trend

2013: 311 GWh20132014: 325 GWh20142015: 302 GWh20152016: 312 GWh20162017: 290 GWh20172018: 294 GWh20182019: 277 GWh2019325 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by NRG Energy Gas & Wind Holdings Inc. 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 41.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.4°Cannual mean temp
3,508heating degree-days (base 18°C)
403cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
744 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 10 °CON: 2 °CND: -3 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 43% 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: 76/100 — 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 #527 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 41.4547, -99.5681 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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