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Flat Ridge Wind Farm

Wind power plant in Kansas, United States of America. Approximate location 37.3692, -98.4603.

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Flat Ridge Wind Farm is a 50 MW wind power plant in Kansas, United States of America. It is operated by Evergy Kansas Central Inc. Based on reported annual generation of 154 GWh, it can supply roughly 43,885 homes. It ranks #2737 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).

50MW installed capacity
154GWh reported / yr
43,885homes powered
2009commissioned (~17 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056819.

Reported generation trend

2013: 128 GWh20132014: 132 GWh20142015: 147 GWh20152016: 145 GWh20162017: 150 GWh20172018: 145 GWh20182019: 154 GWh2019154 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Evergy Kansas Central 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 humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.0°Cannual mean temp
2,326heating degree-days (base 18°C)
904cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
467 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 3 °CFM: 8 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 19 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 15 °CON: 7 °CND: 2 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 5% below 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: 48/100 — 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 #629 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 37.3692, -98.4603 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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