Wind power in Illinois
Wind power in Illinois provided 5.5% of the state's electrical power in 2015. At the end of 2015, Illinois had 3842 megawatts (MW) of wind power installed, ranking fifth among states for installed wind turbine capacity.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] For 2013, in-state renewable generation was just 5.1% of Illinois' total generation.[4] Additional renewably generated electricity is imported from other states.[5] 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.[6][7]That amount is lower with higher capacity factors and is higher with 100 meter hub heights.[7]
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.[8] The largest wind farm in the state is the 300 MW Cayuga Ridge installation, while another seven windfarms each exceeded 100 MW capacity.[2] The Twin Groves Wind Farm was the largest wind farm east of the Mississippi when completed but has since been surpassed.[9][10] 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.[2] A proposed high voltage DC transmission line would transmit wind generated electrical power to the Chicago area from northwest Iowa.[11]
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.[12]
Wind farms
Farm | Installed capacity (MW) | County[13] |
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Mendota Hills | 51.66 | Lee |
Shady Oaks | 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[14] | 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 |
Pioneer Trail | 150 | Iroquois/Ford |
Wind generation
Illinois Wind Generation (GWh, Million kWh) | |||||||||||||
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Year | Total | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec |
2012 | 7,727 | 880 | 613 | 869 | 782 | 641 | 565 | 320 | 277 | 443 | 771 | 608 | 958 |
2013 | 9,607 | 1,156 | 846 | 1,000 | 1,078 | 766 | 594 | 416 | 327 | 510 | 747 | 1,223 | 944 |
2014 | 10,076 | 1,313 | 849 | 1,069 | 1,097 | 873 | 621 | 489 | 351 | 458 | 842 | 1,285 | 829 |
2015 | 10,734 | 1,004 | 928 | 998 | 1,073 | 890 | 519 | 401 | 446 | 628 | 1,167 | 1,368 | 1,312 |
2016 | 7,409 | 1,268 | 1,145 | 1,096 | 1,026 | 855 | 592 | 401 | 333 | 693 |
Net Generation for Wind, Monthly [17] |
Megawatts of Installed Generating Capacity[19] |
See also
References
- ↑ 2015 Wind Technologies Market Report. U.S. Department of Energy, EERE. August 2016. p. 9.
- 1 2 3 U.S. Wind Energy Projects - Illinois, American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
- ↑ "Illinois Incentives/Policies for Renewables & Efficiency". Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency. U.S. Dept. of Energy. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
- ↑ "Electric Power Monthly, February 2014". U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- ↑ Fix for Illinois renewable energy law faces opposition from utilities
- ↑ "WIND ENERGY FACTS: ILLINOIS" (PDF). American Wind Energy Association. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- 1 2 "WindExchange:Illinois 80-meter wind map and wind resource potential". U.S. Department of Energy, EERE. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ↑ About Wind Power in Illinois, 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, Steve Stein, Peoria Journal Star, June 14, 2008
- ↑ "Rock Island Clean Line files application with FERC" (PDF). Clean Line Energy Partners. 8 November 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- ↑ "TVA: Energy Purchases from Wind Farms". tva.com.
- ↑ Illinois Wind Power Maps
- ↑
- ↑ EIA (May 21, 2013). "Electric Power Monthly". United States Department of Energy. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
- ↑ Electricity data browser - Illinois U.S. EIA
- ↑ http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0?agg=1,0,2&fuel=008&geo=vvvvvvvvvvvvo&sec=o3g&linechart=ELEC.GEN.WND-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.WND-IA-99.M~ELEC.GEN.WND-TX-99.M~ELEC.GEN.WND-IL-99.M&columnchart=ELEC.GEN.WND-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.WND-IA-99.M~ELEC.GEN.WND-TX-99.M&map=ELEC.GEN.WND-US-99.M&freq=M&start=201501&end=201512&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&rtype=s&maptype=0&rse=0&pin=
- ↑ "Installed Wind Capacity". U.S. Department of Energy. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
- ↑ "AWEA 4th quarter 2011 Public Market Report" (PDF). American Wind Energy Association(AWEA). January 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
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