Wind power in South Dakota
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Wind resource map of South Dakota
The state of South Dakota is a leader in the U.S. in wind power generation with over 25% of the state's electricity generation coming from wind in 2015.[1] South Dakota has 583 turbines with a total capacity of 977 megawatts (MW) of wind generation capacity.[1]
South Dakota is one of the country's windiest states, and has the potential of installing 882,000 MW, and generating 2,902 billion kWh/year.[2] Just as in Texas, the construction of new wind farms is transmission line limited.[3]
South Dakota's first wind farm was the South Dakota Wind Energy Center, built in 2003.[4]
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Summary statistics
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Wind generation percentage
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Wind power per capita
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List of wind farms in South Dakota
The following is an incomplete list of wind farms.
| Name | Size (MW) | Location | Status |
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| Beethoven Wind Farm | 80 | Tripp | June 2015[5] |
| Buffalo Ridge I Wind Farm | 77 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | April 2009 |
| Buffalo Ridge II Wind Farm | 210 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | December 2010 |
| Crow Lake Wind Project | 162 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | February 2011 |
| Day County Wind Farm | 99 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | April 2010 |
| MinnDakota Wind Farm | 150 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | January 2008 |
| South Dakota Wind Energy Center | 40.5 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 2003 |
| Tatanka Wind Farm | 88.5* | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | March 2008 |
| Titan Wind Project | 25 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | December 2009 |
| Wessington Springs Wind Project | 51 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | February 2009 |
- * In South Dakota
Wind generation
All across the midwest, the Aermotor Windmill and others like it, have been used for a century for pumping water
| South Dakota Wind Generation (GWh, Million kWh) | |||||||||||||
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| Year | Total | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2010 | 1,372 | 43 | 31 | 51 | 81 | 98 | 67 | 64 | 77 | 132 | 130 | 134 | 134 |
| 2011 | 2,692 | 184 | 263 | 234 | 301 | 280 | 206 | 148 | 156 | 142 | 253 | 275 | 256 |
| 2012 | 2,914 | 288 | 224 | 289 | 286 | 270 | 227 | 183 | 174 | 198 | 294 | 262 | 214 |
| 2013 | 2,687 | 260 | 213 | 230 | 272 | 236 | 201 | 157 | 150 | 201 | 256 | 284 | 227 |
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See also
- Renewable energy in South Dakota
- List of wind farms in the United States
- Wind power in the United States
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 South Dakota Fact Sheet, AWEA, accessed May 31, 2016
- ↑ U.S. Renewable Energy Technical Potentials
- ↑ ITC holdings
- ↑ South Dakota Wind Energy Projects
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