How many wind farms are in ERCOT?

ERCOT has 199 operating utility-scale wind farms with 41 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.

What is the largest wind farm in ERCOT?

Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Taylor County, Texas is the largest, at 736 MW. It came online in 2006.

How many wind farms were built in ERCOT in 2025?

8 wind farms came online in ERCOT in 2025, with 1,667 MW of capacity.

Who is developing wind farms in ERCOT?

Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.

Wind farms in ERCOT

ERCOT has 199 operating wind farms with 41 GW of capacity. 8 came online in 2025.

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Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

ERCOT had 106 wind farms online in 2016 and 199 in 2026

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Wind farms online at the end of each year. Source: EIA-860M, compiled by Cleanview.

The 10 largest wind farms in ERCOT

Operating, by capacity

#	Wind farm	Location	Year online	Capacity
1	Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center	Taylor County, Texas	2006	736 MW
2	Capricorn Ridge Wind LLC	Sterling County, Texas	2008	663 MW
3	Aviator Wind	Coke County, Texas	2021	525 MW
4	White Mesa Wind	Crockett County, Texas	2021	501 MW
5	Young Wind	Young County, Texas	2022	500 MW
6	High Lonesome Wind Power, LLC Hybrid	Upton County, Texas	2023	500 MW
7	Maverick Creek Wind	Concho County, Texas	2022	492 MW
8	Mesquite Star	Nolan County, Texas	2020	419 MW
9	Stephens Ranch Wind Energy LLC	Borden County, Texas	2015	376 MW
10	Western Trail Wind, LLC	Wilbarger County, Texas	2022	367 MW

Wind farms that came online most recently in ERCOT

Newest first

#	Wind farm	Location	Year online	Capacity
1	Hubbard Wind II	Hill County, Texas	2026	305 MW
2	La Casa Wind	Stephens County, Texas	2025	150 MW
3	Monte Cristo 1	Hidalgo County, Texas	2025	239 MW
4	Lane City Wind	Wharton County, Texas	2025	203 MW
5	Hart Wind	Castro County, Texas	2025	166 MW
6	Prairie Switch Wind LLC	Wharton County, Texas	2025	163 MW
7	Peyton Creek Wind Farm II	Matagorda County, Texas	2025	243 MW
8	El Sauz Ranch Wind, LLC	Willacy County, Texas	2025	301 MW
9	Montgomery Ranch Wind Farm, LLC	Foard County, Texas	2025	203 MW
10	Azure Sky Wind Project, LLC Hybrid	Throckmorton County, Texas	2024	350 MW

The developer behind each project is on paid plans. See plans

How Cleanview tracks wind farms

Operating wind farms come from the EIA's monthly survey of power plants. Planned projects come from the grid operators' interconnection queues. We research who is developing each one, since a queue lists a project company, not its owner.

Questions about wind farms in ERCOT

How many wind farms are in ERCOT?: ERCOT has 199 operating utility-scale wind farms with 41 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.
What is the largest wind farm in ERCOT?: Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Taylor County, Texas is the largest, at 736 MW. It came online in 2006.
How many wind farms were built in ERCOT in 2025?: 8 wind farms came online in ERCOT in 2025, with 1,667 MW of capacity.
Who is developing wind farms in ERCOT?: Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.