Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy

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Nebraska Energy Statistics

Wind Facilities' Installed Capacity
by State

Nebraska has the twelfth–largest installed capacity of wind in the country, based on the latest figures. In the third quarter of 2023, Nebraska has the installed capacity of 3,519.0 megawatts of wind energy, which is 2.6 percent of the nation's installed capacity of 132,938.0 megawatts. Texas has the largest installed capacity (36,008.9 megawatts which is 27.1 percent of the nation's total), and Delaware has the smallest installed capacity (2.0 megawatts). Forty–one states and one territory have utility–scale wind facilities.

The wind energy section of the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy's energy statistics has more information.

Note: States are ranked so that equivalent capacity are ranked at the same level.

Wind Energy Facilities
Installed Capacity
Ranked by State/Territory

(Largest to Smallest Capacity
for the 3rd Quarter of 2023)
Rank State Installed Capacity
(Megawatts)
1 Texas 36,008.9
2 Oklahoma 11,680.5
3 Iowa 9,891.6
4 Kansas 8,152.4
5 Illinois 7,191.9
6 California 6,103.1
7 Colorado 4,643.9
8 Minnesota 4,315.5
9 New Mexico 4,023.8
10 North Dakota 3,664.7
11 Michigan 3,568.1
12 Nebraska 3,519.0
13 Indiana 3,468.1
14 Washington 3,069.5
15 South Dakota 3,062.6
16 Oregon 2,842.7
17 Missouri 2,435.3
18 Wyoming 2,424.7
19 New York 2,407.5
20 Montana 1,487.3
21 Pennsylvania 1,474.8
22 Ohio 1,111.2
23 Maine 1,031.2
24 Idaho 972.5
25 Arizona 856.9
26 Wisconsin 829.2
27 West Virginia 757.9
28 Utah 390.7
29 Hawaii 233.5
30 New Hampshire 214.2
31 North Carolina 208.1
32 Maryland 191.1
33 Nevada 151.8
34 Vermont 149.5
35 Puerto Rico 125.4
36 Massachusetts 120.3
37 Alaska 63.5
38 Rhode Island 49.4
39 Tennessee 29.0
40 New Jersey 9.0
41 Connecticutt 5.1
42 Delaware 2.0
United States Total 132,938.0

Sources: American Clean Power Association, Wind Energy Technologies Office, WINDExchange, Washington, DC. Site: https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data/321 ; Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy, Lincoln, NE.

This table was updated on February 7, 2024.
Typically, there is one year between updates.

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