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Red Pine Wind Project

Wind power plant in Minnesota, United States of America. Approximate location 44.478, -96.1538.

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Red Pine Wind Project is a 200 MW wind power station in Minnesota, United States of America. It is operated by EDF Renewable Asset Holdings Inc.. Based on reported annual generation of 780 GWh, it can supply roughly 223,000 homes. It ranks #1280 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 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).

200MW installed capacity
780GWh reported / yr
223,000homes powered
2018commissioned (~8 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0061357.

Reported generation trend

2017: 110 GWh20172018: 798 GWh20182019: 780 GWh2019798 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 hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

6.5°Cannual mean temp
4,417heating degree-days (base 18°C)
247cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
476 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -11 °CJF: -8 °CFM: -1 °CMA: 7 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 9 °CON: -1 °CND: -8 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 80% 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: 90/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #174 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 44.478, -96.1538 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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