Lincoln Heights I

Wind power plant in Minnesota, United States of America. Approximate location 44.2878, -96.4333.

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Lincoln Heights I is a 5 MW wind power plant in Minnesota, United States of America. It is operated by Allete Clean Energy. Based on reported annual generation of 9 GWh, it can supply roughly 2,628 homes. It ranks #5572 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2006, it is around 20 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).

5MW installed capacity
9GWh reported / yr
2,628homes powered
2006commissioned (~20 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0063432.

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Allete Clean Energy. 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 44.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

6.2°Cannual mean temp
4,508heating degree-days (base 18°C)
212cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
552 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -12 °CJF: -8 °CFM: -1 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 8 °CON: -1 °CND: -9 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 83% 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: 91/100 — 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 #918 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 44.2878, -96.4333 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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