Mountaineer Wind Energy Center

OperatingWind

Ranked #6 of 8 Wind plants in WV#876 of 1442 nationally

66 MW Wind operating in Tucker, WV — PJM Interconnection, LLC

EIAGEMWD

66 MW

Nameplate Capacity

Generators

unit

Onshore Wind Turbine

Technology

2002

Operating Since

Location

Coordinates

39.1828, -79.5372

County

Tucker, WV

Nearby Plants

Roth Rock Wind Farm LLC
Wind40 MW · 10.0 km
Roth Rock North Wind Farm, LLC
Wind10 MW · 14.6 km
Fair Wind
Wind30 MW · 20.3 km

Ownership & Operator

Owner data does not fully agree across sources.

EIA typically reports the operating utility, while GEM resolves to the financial owner or parent corporation. Both can be correct.

Field	EIA	GEM	Wikidata
Operator	Sequitur Renewables, LLC	NextEra Energy	—
Owner(s)	Sequitur Renewables, LLC	GlidePath [100%]	—
Status	Operating	operating	—

Ownership Chain

GEM identifies the owner as GlidePath [100%]

This entity is not yet in the GEM ownership database — chain unavailable.

About

Mountaineer Wind Energy Center is a wind farm on Backbone Mountain in Preston and Tucker counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. When it came online in December 2002, Mountaineer was the first wind farm in West Virginia, and the largest east of the Mississippi River. Mountaineer Wind Energy Center is owned and operated by Florida Power & Light. Exelon Generation purchases the power produced by Mountaineer and markets it across the Mid-Atlantic region through its partnership with Community Energy, Inc., a leading wind energy marketer in the United States.

Read more on Wikipedia

Mountaineer Wind Energy Center is a 66 MW wind power plant located in Tucker County, West Virginia. The facility, which began operating in 2002, is owned and operated by Sequitur Renewables, LLC. It utilizes a single onshore wind turbine generator. The plant's turbines have a hub height of 70 meters and a rotor diameter of 72 meters, and were manufactured by NEG Micon, model NM72.

The plant's latest annual generation was 113,497 MWh, resulting in a capacity factor of 19.7%. Mountaineer Wind Energy Center is interconnected to the PJM Interconnection, LLC balancing authority and is within the RFC NERC region. It is ranked as the 5th largest of 7 wind plants in West Virginia, and 866th out of 1424 wind plants nationally.

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