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Penascal II Wind Project LLC

Wind power plant in Texas, United States of America. Approximate location 27.1197, -97.5499.

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Penascal II Wind Project LLC is a 201 MW wind power station in Texas, United States of America. It is operated by Avangrid Renewables LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 463 GWh, it can supply roughly 132,228 homes. It ranks #1236 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2010, it is around 16 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).

201MW installed capacity
463GWh reported / yr
132,228homes powered
2010commissioned (~16 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0057095.

Reported generation trend

2013: 576 GWh20132014: 529 GWh20142015: 460 GWh20152016: 470 GWh20162017: 526 GWh20172018: 523 GWh20182019: 463 GWh2019576 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 humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 27.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

22.3°Cannual mean temp
265heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,844cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
3 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 14 °CJF: 16 °CFM: 19 °CMA: 22 °CAM: 25 °CMJ: 28 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 24 °CON: 19 °CND: 16 °CD29 °C

Heating degree-days here run 89% 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 #134 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 27.1197, -97.5499 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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