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Cloud County Wind Farm

Wind power plant in Kansas, United States of America. Approximate location 39.4375, -97.6644.

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Cloud County Wind Farm is a 201 MW wind power station in Kansas, United States of America. It is operated by Cloud County Windfarm LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 548 GWh, it can supply roughly 156,542 homes. It ranks #1231 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2009, it is around 17 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).

201MW installed capacity
548GWh reported / yr
156,542homes powered
2009commissioned (~17 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056784.

Reported generation trend

2013: 629 GWh20132014: 652 GWh20142015: 575 GWh20152016: 580 GWh20162017: 611 GWh20172018: 568 GWh20182019: 548 GWh2019652 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Cloud County Windfarm 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 39.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.1°Cannual mean temp
2,830heating degree-days (base 18°C)
683cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
468 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -3 °CJF: 0 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 12 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 13 °CON: 5 °CND: -1 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 15% 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: 58/100 — 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 #129 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 39.4375, -97.6644 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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