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Kit Carson Windpower — Power plant · Wind · Deriva Energy
  • Wind & solar
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Kit Carson Windpower

Power plant · Wind

Key facts

Power plant · Windran 35% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2010
Net generation, 2025
154,839 MWh
Grid
230 kV to Tri-State G & T Assn, Inc (WACM)
Location
Kit Carson County, Colorado
Operated by
Deriva EnergySourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2010 to 2025

Operations detail

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Technology
Wind source: “Onshore Wind Turbine”
Age
16 years since 2010
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Gem
Unit ids
G100000909029
Location id
L100000906705
Eia plant ids
57244
Grid
Nerc region
WECC
Report year
2025
Grid voltage kv
230
Transmission owner
Tri-State G & T Assn, Inc
Balancing authority code
WACM
Balancing authority name
Western Area Power Administration - Rocky Mountain Region
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025528,312
Capacity factor, 20250.347
Net generation (MWh), 2025154,839
Balancing authority codeWACM

Wind turbines

Turbines
34
Turbine capacity (MW)
51
Turbine models
34 GE Wind GE1.5-77
Hub height (m)
80
Rotor diameter (m)
77
Year online
2010

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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