- Wind & solar
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Wind & solar
- Operating
Sunflower Wind Project: location. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Sunflower Wind Project
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 47% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2016
- Net generation, 2025
- 431,620 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Basin Electric Power Coop (WACM)
- Location
- Morton County, North Dakota
- Operated by
- Onward EnergySourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 431,620
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 1,472,686
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 47.4
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (8 of 12 months) | 282,668 | 964,463 | — | — |
| 2025 | 431,620 | 1,472,686 | 47.4% | — |
| 2024 | 427,512 | 1,458,671 | 46.8% | — |
| 2023 | 404,919 | 1,381,583 | 44.5% | — |
| 2022 | 458,838 | 1,565,557 | 50.4% | — |
| 2021 | 402,008 | 3,555,357 | 44.1% | — |
| 2020 | 464,376 | 4,071,184 | 50.8% | — |
| 2019 | 438,251 | 3,902,628 | 48.1% | — |
| 2018 | 425,173 | 3,870,776 | 46.7% | — |
| 2017 | 456,380 | 4,204,629 | 50.1% | — |
| 2016 (3 of 12 months) | 62,530 | 577,277 | — | — |
How these are worked out
Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.
Sources
3 sourcesSources
- 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)