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Aurora County Wind
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 46% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2018
- Net generation, 2025
- 79,811 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to NorthWestern Energy - (SD) (SWPP)
- Location
- Aurora County, South Dakota
- Operated by
- RWE Americas, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
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- Technology
- Wind source: “Onshore Wind Turbine”
- Age
- 8 years since 2018
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
|
| Grid |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 272,314 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.456 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 79,811 |
| Balancing authority code | SWPP |
Wind turbines
Wind turbines
USGS maps these turbines around a center 1.8 km from the point this page maps the plant at; the nearest turbine is 0.5 km from that point.
- Turbines
- 9
- Turbine capacity (MW)
- 20.7
- Turbine models
- 9 GE Wind GE2.3-116
- Hub height (m)
- 80
- Rotor diameter (m)
- 116
- Year online
- 2018
Source U.S. Wind Turbine Database
Source
- U.S. Wind Turbine DatabaseMap services and data are available from U.S. Wind Turbine Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, American Clean Power Association, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
5 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · U.S. Wind Turbine Database · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Sources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- U.S. Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) — USGS, American Clean Power Association and LBNL; one row per turbineMap services and data are available from U.S. Wind Turbine Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, American Clean Power Association, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory