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Klondike Windpower III

Wind power plant in Oregon, United States of America. Approximate location 45.5836, -120.5042.

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Klondike Windpower III is a 298 MW wind power station in Oregon, United States of America. It is operated by Avangrid Renewables LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 700 GWh, it can supply roughly 199,971 homes. It ranks #976 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 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).

298MW installed capacity
700GWh reported / yr
199,971homes powered
2007commissioned (~19 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056468.

Reported generation trend

2013: 815 GWh20132014: 800 GWh20142015: 727 GWh20152016: 759 GWh20162017: 663 GWh20172018: 724 GWh20182019: 700 GWh2019815 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 warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.4°Cannual mean temp
2,708heating degree-days (base 18°C)
307cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
314 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 1 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 11 °CON: 5 °CND: 1 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 10% 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: 55/100 — 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 #43 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 45.5836, -120.5042 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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