Longhorn Wind

Wind power plant in Texas, United States of America. Approximate location 34.3111, -101.2511.

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Longhorn Wind is a 200 MW wind power station in Texas, United States of America. It is operated by EDF Renewable Asset Holdings Inc.. Based on reported annual generation of 751 GWh, it can supply roughly 214,685 homes. It ranks #1268 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).

200MW installed capacity
751GWh reported / yr
214,685homes powered
2015commissioned (~11 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0058772.

Reported generation trend

2015: 449 GWh20152016: 764 GWh20162017: 768 GWh20172018: 786 GWh20182019: 751 GWh2019786 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by EDF Renewable Asset Holdings 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 cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.7°Cannual mean temp
1,978heating degree-days (base 18°C)
790cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
966 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 6 °CFM: 10 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 19 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 21 °CSO: 16 °CON: 9 °CND: 4 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 20% 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: 43/100 — 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 #163 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 34.3111, -101.2511 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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