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Porterhouse Wind (4) LLC

Wind power plant in Texas, United States of America. Approximate location 36.4144, -101.3864.

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Porterhouse Wind (4) LLC is a 80 MW wind power plant in Texas, United States of America. It is operated by GlidePath Power Operations LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 142 GWh, it can supply roughly 40,542 homes. It ranks #2245 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2008, it is around 18 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).

80MW installed capacity
142GWh reported / yr
40,542homes powered
2008commissioned (~18 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0056560.

Reported generation trend

2013: 238 GWh20132014: 253 GWh20142015: 228 GWh20152016: 250 GWh20162017: 246 GWh20172018: 196 GWh20182019: 142 GWh2019253 GWh

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

Owner

Operated by GlidePath Power Operations 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 cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 36.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

13.9°Cannual mean temp
2,253heating degree-days (base 18°C)
783cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
941 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 1 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 8 °CMA: 13 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 21 °CSO: 15 °CON: 7 °CND: 2 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 8% 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: 47/100 — 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 #531 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 36.4144, -101.3864 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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