Missouri 80-Meter Wind Resource Map

Wind power in Missouri has an installed capacity of 959 MW from 499 turbines, as of 2016.[1] This provided 1.29% of the state's electricity production.[2]

Missouri's total wind generation potential is estimated to be 340 GW.[1]

Installed capacity

As of 2016, Missouri had 959 MW of installed capacity, all installed in the north-west corner of the state.[1] At least six wind farms were developed by Wind Capital Group between 2006 and 2009. As of 2017, the largest wind farm in the state came online, the 300 MW Rock Creek Wind Farm in Atchison County.[3]

Northwest Missouri is considered the windiest portion of the state and clips the windiest portion of the country which is known as Tornado Alley.

Missouri Wind Generation (GWh, Million kWh)
Year Total Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008 203 11 7 13 19 17 16 17 12 19 30 12 30
2009 499 26 26 34 59 41 23 23 37 29 70 74 57
2010 925 45 40 76 75 92 67 57 67 87 104 136 79
2011 1,179 93 106 108 143 112 99 58 48 69 106 139 98
2012 1,245 135 112 135 111 116 103 66 62 64 115 116 110
2013 1,165 120 120 118 111 102 92 58 51 79 101 122 91
2014 1,130 141 83 127 126 88 79 62 48 60 101 137 78
2015 1,034 111 87 92 97 79 61 41 47 86 86 130 117
2016 1,122 98 118 119 132 69 65 60 52 83 100 108 118
2017 2,031 141 170 187 181 161 141 99 80 136 192 264 279
2018 2,836 296 234 305 280 190 244 128 195 223 230 243 268
2019 2,857 244 215 286 288 223 193 189 146 263 279 245 286
2020 3,345 242 250 260 263 261 285 168 204 286 338 378 410
2021 6,608 495 416 729 636 548 382 278 466 542 580 708 828
2022 7,468 775 766 813 729 576 480 375 356 469 568 795 766
2023 2,206 664 720 822
Source:[5]
Project County City Turbines Nominal Power (MW) Commissioned Notes
Bluegrass Ridge Gentry King City 27 56.7 2008 [6] Developed by Wind Capital Group (now owned by Exelon). Wind Capital's founder is Tom Carnahan, son of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan and U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan
Clear Creek Nodaway Maryville 111 242 2020 [7] Developed by Tenaska with lease by Associated Electric Cooperative in Springfield to provide power for rural electric cooperatives in Missouri, Iowa and Oklahoma.[7][8]
Conception Nodaway Conception 24 50.4 2008 [9] Developed by Wind Capital Group (now owned by Exelon)
Cow Branch Atchison Rockport 24 50.4 2008 [10] Developed by Wind Capital Group (now owned by Exelon)
Farmers City Atchison Westboro 73 146.0 2009 [11] Owned by and developed by Iberdrola Renovables.
Loess Hills Atchison Rockport 4 5.0 2008 First city in US to get its total power from wind.[12] Developed by Wind Capital Group (now owned by Exelon)
Lost Creek Ridge DeKalb Union Star 100 150.0 2011 [13] Developed by Wind Capital Group and later sold to Pattern Energy.
Osborn Dekalb Osborn 88 176.0 2016 [14] Developed and owned by NextEra Energy.
Rock Creek Atchison York 150 300.0 2017 Largest in Missouri and cost $500 Million[15] Owned and developed by Enel Green Power (after acquisition in 2019 of Kansas-based Tradewind Energy).[16]
White Cloud Nodaway Maryville 89 236.5 2020 Owned and developed by Enel Green Power. 11 Vestas and 78 Siemens Gamesa turbines.[17] Cost was $380 million.[18]

Transmission capacity

There have been several attempts at getting regulatory approval of transmission lines to carry wind power, either to the load centers of Missouri, or through Missouri, from major wind power producers in the Great Plains states to load centers further east.

Completed

Proposed

Planned growth

In October 2017, the Empire District Electric Company proposed installing 500 MW of wind turbines in Jasper, Barton, Dade, and Lawrence counties.[27][28][29]

In May 2018, Ameren has announced plans to construct a 175 turbine, 400 MW wind farm in Adair and Schuyler counties.[30] Construction is expected to being in 2019, with the project coming online in 2020.

In February 2019, E.ON announced plans for a 150 MW wind farm northwest of Columbia, Missouri in rural Boone County.[31]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Wind Energy in Missouri". WINDExchange. Department of Energy. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
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  4. ^ WINDEXchange: U.S. Installed and Potential Wind Power Capacity and Generation
  5. ^ a b "Electricity Data Browser". U.S. Department of Energy. March 28, 2018. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
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  16. ^ "White Cloud Wind Project, a new wind farm in Missouri providing renewable energy to AECI". www.enelgreenpower.com.
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  18. ^ "Enel begins operations of two American wind farms with 435MW capacity".
  19. ^ "Midwest Transmission Project". www.midwesttransmissionproject.com.
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  21. ^ Bates, Michael (6 January 2020). "Ameren Energizes the Mark Twain Transmission Project". North American Wind Power. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
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  24. ^ Eckhouse, Brian (16 August 2017). "Missouri Nixes $2.5 Billion Line to Bring Wind Power to the Midwest". Bloomberg. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
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  27. ^ Larimore, Jordan (31 October 2017). "UPDATED: Empire plans pivot to wind energy generation". Joplin Globe. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  28. ^ Froese, Michelle (1 November 2017). "Empire District Electric proposes 800 MW of new wind power". Wind Power Engineering & Development. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  29. ^ McNary, James (8 November 2017). "Empire District hopes answer is blowing in the wind". Lawrence County Record. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  30. ^ Chen, Eli (21 May 2018). "Ameren plans to build a large network of wind turbines in northeast Missouri". St Louis Public Radio. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
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