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Los Vientos Windpower IV

Wind power plant in Texas, United States of America. Approximate location 26.3806, -98.8183.

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Los Vientos Windpower IV is a 200 MW wind power station in Texas, United States of America. It is operated by Los Vientos Windpower IV LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 655 GWh, it can supply roughly 187,142 homes. It ranks #1271 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 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
655GWh reported / yr
187,142homes powered
2016commissioned (~10 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0059321.

Reported generation trend

2016: 254 GWh20162017: 738 GWh20172018: 729 GWh20182019: 655 GWh2019738 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by Los Vientos Windpower IV LLC.

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 26.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

23.3°Cannual mean temp
230heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,179cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
59 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 14 °CJF: 17 °CFM: 21 °CMA: 24 °CAM: 27 °CMJ: 29 °CJJ: 30 °CJA: 30 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 24 °CON: 20 °CND: 16 °CD30 °C

Heating degree-days here run 91% 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: 17/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #166 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 26.3806, -98.8183 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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