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Burley Butte Windpark

Wind power plant in Idaho, United States of America. Approximate location 42.4903, -113.9266.

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Burley Butte Windpark is a 21 MW wind power plant in Idaho, United States of America. It is operated by Idaho Wind Partners 1 LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 56 GWh, it can supply roughly 16,028 homes. It ranks #3615 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2011, it is around 15 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
56GWh reported / yr
16,028homes powered
2011commissioned (~15 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056434.

Reported generation trend

2013: 58 GWh20132014: 61 GWh20142015: 51 GWh20152016: 56 GWh20162017: 48 GWh20172018: 61 GWh20182019: 56 GWh201961 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Idaho Wind Partners 1 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 cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.7°Cannual mean temp
3,541heating degree-days (base 18°C)
149cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,325 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -3 °CJF: 0 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 17 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 10 °CON: 2 °CND: -2 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 44% 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: 77/100 — 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 #768 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 42.4903, -113.9266 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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