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Ocotillo Windpower: location and 4 exact-grade projects within 15 mi. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Ocotillo Windpower
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 15% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2008
- Net generation, 2025
- 79,406 MWh
- Grid
- 138 kV to Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC (ERCO)
- Location
- Howard County, Texas
- Operated by
- Deriva Energy
Output
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- Technology
- Wind source: “Onshore Wind Turbine”
- Age
- 18 years since 2008
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
|
| Grid |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 270,934 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.154 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 79,406 |
| Balancing authority code | ERCO |
Wind turbines
Wind turbines
USGS records all 26 turbines as partly rebuilt since they were first put up (a new rotor or nacelle, for example).
USGS maps these turbines around a center 1.7 mi from the point this page maps the plant at; the nearest turbine is 0.1 mi from that point.
- Turbines
- 26
- Turbine capacity (MW)
- 54.6
- Turbine models
- 26 Suzlon S88
- Hub height (m)
- 79
- Rotor diameter (m)
- 88
- Year online
- 2008
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
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deriva Energy | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| Ocotillo Windpower LP | Owner | 100.0% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
6 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · U.S. Wind Turbine Database · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
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
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Around this plant
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|---|---|---|---|
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