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Buckthorn Wind — Power plant · Wind · Buckthorn Wind Project, LLC
  • Wind & solar
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Buckthorn Wind

Power plant · Wind

Key facts

Power plant · Windran 41% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2017
Net generation, 2025
359,571 MWh
Grid
138 kV to Brazos Electric Power Coop Inc (ERCO)
Location
Erath County, Texas
Operated by
Buckthorn Wind Project, LLCSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2017 to 2026

Operations detail

Details

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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
G100000909427
Location id
L100000907008
Eia plant ids
60983
Grid
Nerc region
TRE
Report year
2025
Grid voltage kv
138
Transmission owner
Brazos Electric Power Coop Inc
Balancing authority code
ERCO
Balancing authority name
Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc.
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 20251,226,857
Capacity factor, 20250.408
Net generation (MWh), 2025359,571
Balancing authority codeERCO

Wind turbines

Turbines
29
Turbine capacity (MW)
100
Turbine models
3 Vestas V117-3.45 and 26 Vestas V126-3.45
Hub height (m)
87
Rotor diameter (m)
117–126
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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