- Wind & solar
- In development
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Wind & solar
- In development
- Operating
Desert Sky: location and 4 exact-grade projects within 25 km. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Desert Sky
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 37% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2002
- Net generation, 2025
- 541,153 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to AEP Texas North Company (ERCO)
- Location
- Pecos County, Texas
- Operated by
- Desert Sky Wind Farm LPSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Output
Details
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- Technology
- Wind source: “Onshore Wind Turbine”
- Age
- 24 years since 2002
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
|
| Grid |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 1,846,414 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.368 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 541,153 |
| Balancing authority code | ERCO |
Wind turbines
Wind turbines
USGS records all 91 turbines as partly rebuilt since they were first put up (a new rotor or nacelle, for example).
USGS maps these turbines around a center 3.3 km from the point this page maps the plant at; the nearest turbine is 0.2 km from that point.
- Turbines
- 91
- Turbine capacity (MW)
- 142.7
- Turbine models
- 3 GE Wind GE1.7-103, 1 GE Wind GE1.5-70.5, 71 GE Wind GE1.5-82.5 and 16 GE Wind GE1.85-87.5
- Hub height (m)
- 65–80
- Rotor diameter (m)
- 70.5–103
- Year online
- 2001
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
- GEMGlobal 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 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
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Around this plant
Nearby
within 25 km| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenalia Solar Power Blackwelder Ranch Announced | Solar | 15.1 km | 199.7 |
| Blackwelder Ranch Wind Announced | Wind | 15.1 km | 110.4 |
| RE Maplewood Postponed | Solar | 17.6 km | 300 |
| Big Sampson Wind Built | Wind | 23.6 km | 265.4 |