Echo Wind Park

Wind power plant in Michigan, United States of America. Approximate location 43.8825, -83.1614.

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Echo Wind Park is a 162 MW wind power station in Michigan, United States of America. It is operated by DTE Electric Company. Based on reported annual generation of 392 GWh, it can supply roughly 112,057 homes. It ranks #1448 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 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).

162MW installed capacity
392GWh reported / yr
112,057homes powered
2015commissioned (~11 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0058121.

Reported generation trend

2014: 193 GWh20142015: 396 GWh20152016: 400 GWh20162017: 395 GWh20172018: 392 GWh20182019: 392 GWh2019400 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by DTE Electric Company. 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 warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

7.6°Cannual mean temp
3,911heating degree-days (base 18°C)
141cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
225 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -6 °CJF: -6 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 10 °CON: 3 °CND: -3 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 59% 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: 83/100 — 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 #234 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 43.8825, -83.1614 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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