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Prairie Queen Wind Farm

Wind power plant in Kansas, United States of America. Approximate location 37.9788, -95.2244.

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Prairie Queen Wind Farm is a 199 MW wind power station in Kansas, United States of America. It is operated by Prairie Queen Wind Farm LLC. Based on reported annual generation of 319 GWh, it can supply roughly 91,114 homes. It ranks #1296 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2019, it is around 7 years old — recently built. 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).

199MW installed capacity
319GWh reported / yr
91,114homes powered
2019commissioned (~7 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0062488.

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

Owner

Operated by Prairie Queen Wind Farm LLC.

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 38.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

13.2°Cannual mean temp
2,459heating degree-days (base 18°C)
736cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
321 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -1 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 8 °CMA: 13 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 21 °CSO: 14 °CON: 7 °CND: 1 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 0% 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: 50/100 — 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 #184 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 37.9788, -95.2244 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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