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Farmers City Wind LLC

Wind power plant in Iowa, United States of America. Approximate location 40.575, -95.5228.

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Farmers City Wind LLC is a 146 MW wind power station in Iowa, United States of America. It is operated by Avangrid Renewables LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 297 GWh, it can supply roughly 84,971 homes. It ranks #1582 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).

146MW installed capacity
297GWh reported / yr
84,971homes powered
2009commissioned (~17 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056767.

Reported generation trend

2013: 332 GWh20132014: 283 GWh20142015: 277 GWh20152016: 316 GWh20162017: 317 GWh20172018: 311 GWh20182019: 297 GWh2019332 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Avangrid Renewables 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 hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.0°Cannual mean temp
3,093heating degree-days (base 18°C)
552cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
308 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 13 °CON: 4 °CND: -2 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 26% 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: 65/100 — 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 #317 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 40.575, -95.5228 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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