Wind power in Illinois
Wind power in Illinois provided 7% of the state's generated electrical power in 2019 powering 1,231,900 homes.[1] At the end of 2019, Illinois had 5,350 megawatts (MW) of wind power installed, ranking sixth among states for installed wind turbine capacity.[2] An additional 1,039 MW of wind power was under construction across the state at the end of 2019.
The vast majority of wind-generated electricity in Illinois is distributed via Midcontinent Independent System Operator, which services Illinois outside of northern Illinois--as opposed to PJM Interconnection, which distributes electricity in the Chicago metropolitan area.[3]
Overview
Wind power has been supported by a renewable portfolio standard, passed in 2007, and strengthened in 2009, which requires 10% renewable energy from electric companies by 2010 and 25% by 2025.[4] For 2013, in-state renewable generation was just 5.1% of Illinois' total generation.[5] Additional renewably generated electricity is imported from other states.[6] Illinois uses a large amount of electricity, and the state's mandate was enacted when only a very small percentage of its electricity was renewably generated.
Illinois has the potential for installing up to an estimated 249,882 MW of wind generation capacity at a hub height of 80 meters operating at 30% gross capacity factor.[7][8] That amount is lower with higher capacity factors and is higher with 100 meter hub heights.[8]
The first wind farm in Illinois opened in 2003 and by 2009, it had over 1800 MW installed statewide with thousands of MW more in the planning stages.[9] The largest wind farm in the state is the 300 MW Cayuga Ridge installation, while another seven windfarms each exceeded MW capacity.[3] The Twin Groves Wind Farm was the largest wind farm east of the Mississippi when completed but has since been surpassed.[10][11] Some smaller installations include a 0.66 MW turbine at the Bureau Valley School District and a 2.5 MW turbine at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, formerly part of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, now part of the University of Illinois.[3] A proposed high voltage DC transmission line would transmit wind generated electrical power to the Chicago area from northwest Iowa.[12]
Power from some wind farms in Illinois is sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority. A 2010 agreement with Iberdrola Renewables provides a potential 300MW future supply from the Streator Cayuga Ridge Wind Farm in Livingston County.[13]
Wind farms
Farm | Installed capacity (MW) | County[14] |
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Mendota Hills | 51.66 | Lee |
Shady Oaks[15] | 109.5 | Lee |
Bishop Hill | 200 | Henry |
Minonk | 200 | Woodford/Livingston |
Crescent Ridge | 54.45 | Bureau |
GSG | 80 | Lee/LaSalle |
AgriWind | 8.4 | Bureau |
Camp Grove | 150 | Marshall/Stark |
California Ridge[16] | 217.1 | Vermilion/Champaign |
Twin Groves | 396 | McLean |
Grand Ridge | 210 | LaSalle |
Providence Heights | 72 | Bureau |
EcoGrove | 100.5 | Stephenson |
Rail Splitter | 100.5 | Logan/Tazewell |
Lee-DeKalb | 217.5 | Lee/DeKalb |
Cayuga Ridge | 300 | Livingston |
Top Crop | 300 | LaSalle |
White Oak | 150 | McLean |
Big Sky | 239.4 | Bureau/Lee |
Kelly Creek[17] | 184 | Kankakee/Ford |
Pioneer Trail | 150 | Iroquois/Ford |
Settlers Trail | 150 | Iroquois |
Bishop Hill II | 81 | Henry |
Pilot Hill | 175 | Iroquois/Kankakee |
Hoopeston Wind | 98 | Vermilion |
Radford Run | 306 | Macon |
Bishop Hill III | 132 | Henry |
HillTopper | 185 | Logan |
Walnut Ridge | 212 | Bureau |
Wind generation
Illinois Wind Generation (GWh, Million kWh) | ||||||||||||||
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Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total | % of Production |
2014 | 1,313 | 849 | 1,069 | 1,097 | 873 | 621 | 498 | 351 | 458 | 842 | 1,285 | 829 | 10,085 | 4.98% |
2015 | 1,004 | 936 | 1,000 | 1,073 | 890 | 518 | 400 | 444 | 628 | 1,167 | 1,372 | 1,316 | 10,748 | 5.54% |
2016 | 1,268 | 1,144 | 1,096 | 1,026 | 854 | 591 | 400 | 331 | 693 | 960 | 1,095 | 1,205 | 10,663 | 5.69% |
2017 | 1,125 | 1,264 | 1,304 | 1,289 | 1,086 | 941 | 471 | 408 | 519 | 1,166 | 1,245 | 1,450 | 12,268 | 6.68% |
2018 | 1,531 | 1,198 | 1,284 | 1,096 | 859 | 616 | 566 | 571 | 679 | 1,172 | 1,065 | 1,262 | 11,899 | 6.33% |
2019 | 1,313 | 1,149 | 1,323 | 1,529 | 1,113 | 1,100 | 800 | 673 | 937 | 1,242 | 1,163 | 1,488 | 13,833 | 7.62% |
2020 | 1,348 | 1,491 | 1,615 | 1,593 | 1,319 | 7,366 | 11.1% |
Teal background indicates the largest wind generation for the year.
Green background indicates largest wind generation month to date.
Net Generation for Wind, Monthly[20] |
Net Generation for Wind, Monthly[21] |
Megawatts of Installed Generating Capacity[23][24] |
See also
References
- "Wind Energy in Illinois" (PDF). American Wind Energy Association. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
- "Illinois Wind Energy" (PDF). U.S. Wind Energy State Facts. American Wind Energy Association. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
- U.S. Wind Energy Projects - Illinois Archived 2010-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
- "Illinois Incentives/Policies for Renewables & Efficiency". Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency. U.S. Dept. of Energy. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
- "Electric Power Monthly, February 2014". U.S. Energy Information Administration. Missing or empty
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(help) - "Fix for Illinois renewable energy law faces utility opposition". midwestenergynews.com. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- "Wind Energy Facts: Illinois" (PDF). American Wind Energy Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2013. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
- "WindExchange:Illinois 80-meter wind map and wind resource potential". U.S. Department of Energy, EERE. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
- About Wind Power in Illinois Archived 2010-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Illinois Wind Energy Association
- AWEA treats Twin Groves as four installations. Together they exceed the capacity of Cayuga Ridge.
- Lookout puts wind farm in perspective Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, Steve Stein, Peoria Journal Star, June 14, 2008
- "Rock Island Clean Line files application with FERC" (PDF). Clean Line Energy Partners. November 8, 2011. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- "TVA: Energy Purchases from Wind Farms". tva.com. Archived from the original on July 31, 2015.
- "Illinois Wind Power Maps". windforillinois.org. Archived from the original on June 29, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- Shady Oaks profile Archived 2014-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
- "Our Projects - Invenergy". www.invenergyllc.com. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- Kelly Creek Wind Park Commissioned Archived 2016-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
- EIA (May 21, 2013). "Electric Power Monthly". United States Department of Energy. Archived from the original on June 3, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
- "Electricity Data Browser". www.eia.gov. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- "Electricity Data Browser". www.eia.gov. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- "Electricity Data Browser". www.eia.gov. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- "Installed Wind Capacity". U.S. Department of Energy. Archived from the original on March 14, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- "AWEA 4th quarter 2011 Public Market Report" (PDF). American Wind Energy Association(AWEA). January 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- "AWEA 4th quarter 2018 Public Market Report". American Wind Energy Association(AWEA). January 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2019.
External links
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- Illinois Wind, a project of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Western Illinois University
- Maps of operating and proposed wind power projects in Illinois
- GA Mansoori, N Enayati, LB Agyarko (2016), Energy: Sources, Utilization, Legislation, Sustainability, Illinois as Model State, World Sci. Pub. Co., ISBN 978-981-4704-00-7