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  • Wind & solar
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Birch

Power plant · Wind

Key facts

Power plant · Windran 42% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2017
Net generation, 2025
6,581 MWh
Grid
12 kV to Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop (MISO)
Location
Taylor County, Iowa
Operated by
Birch Power CoSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2018 to 2025

Operations detail

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Technology
Wind source: “Onshore Wind Turbine”
Age
9 years since 2017
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Gem
Unit ids
G100001019862
Location id
L100001017873
Eia plant ids
62172
Grid
Nerc region
MRO
Report year
2025
Grid voltage kv
12.50
Transmission owner
Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop
Balancing authority code
MISO
Balancing authority name
Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc..
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 202522,455
Capacity factor, 20250.417
Net generation (MWh), 20256,581
Balancing authority codeMISO

Wind turbines

Turbines
1
Turbine capacity (MW)
1.8
Turbine models
1 GE Wind GE1.79-100
Hub height (m)
80
Rotor diameter (m)
100
Year online
2017

Source U.S. Wind Turbine Database

Source

  • U.S. Wind Turbine DatabaseOpen license · retrieved Oct 25, 2026Map 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

Attribution

Timeline

  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

5 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · U.S. Wind Turbine Database · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global 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 DatabaseOpen license · retrieved Oct 25, 2026Map 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
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
  • EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

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