Talk:Wind power in Michigan

Missing wind farms
I can't find a full current list of Michigan wind farms. The list we have has two large farms that came online in 2012 and we are missing almost 200 MW of the claimed 377 MW for 2011. (Three or four more farms are currently under construction as well.) Rmhermen (talk) 00:56, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * It is possible that they counted the 213 MW Gratiot farm in 2011, instead of in June 2012 (entered full production). But that still leaves use with a small discrepancy. Rmhermen (talk) 14:21, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Should be all up to date. Rmhermen (talk) 04:55, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Under construction

 * Thumb
 * Sigel
 * McKinley
 * Minden
 * Garden peninsula, Delta County

Planning stage
 * Oneida Twn, Eaton County
 * Chandler Twn

All i noticed so far. Rmhermen (talk) 01:45, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Map Rmhermen (talk) 13:43, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Gratiot Farms, Tradewind Energy - under construction? Rmhermen (talk) 15:44, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Echo, Crosswinds, Tuscola Bay II, Pheasant run are the upcoming farms. Rmhermen (talk) 04:57, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
 * In 2014 should be: Echo (delayed from 2013 because of blade failure during testing), Crosswinds, Big turtle, Pheasant run II Rmhermen (talk) 04:47, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Echo online, Pheasant run II online - renamed Brookfield; Crosswinds and big Turtle under construction; Ranger proposed Rmhermen (talk) 18:22, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Crosswinds online, big turtle should be online this week.  Rmhermen (talk) 02:46, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 114MW Deerfield Wind Energy online in 2016 Rmhermen (talk) 20:58, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 100MW Apple Blossom Wind farm Rmhermen (talk) 15:32, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 100MW Meade wind farm due for completion in Dec 2015. Is this the same as Apple Blossom? Rmhermen (talk) 16:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Meade was a DTE project voted down in May 2015. A new DTE proposal is called Pinnebog Wind Project. Apple Blossom will sell its power to Consumers Energy. Rmhermen (talk) 19:02, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 153MW Michigan Wind 3 under development Rmhermen (talk) 06:05, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Current projects under development: for 2016 completion: 30 MW Big Turtle II, 150MW Deerfield, 153MW Michigan Wind III, 51MW Pinnebog; later (2017 construction start), 100MW Apple Blossom, 100 or 125 MW Tuscola Wind III. Rmhermen (talk) 21:01, 17 April 2016 (UTC) (Rmhermen (talk) 02:42, 2 October 2016 (UTC))
 * Pine River Wind 161MW, due 2018 (Pinnebog completed Dec 2016) Rmhermen (talk) 23:41, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Cross Winds III due 2020 Rmhermen (talk) 14:13, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Apple Blossom completed, Need to check Michigan Wind III, Tuscola III, and Pine River. Rmhermen (talk) 16:23, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Gratiot Farms 150MW, 2020 completion Rmhermen (talk) 06:23, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Pine River for 2018 completion, Polaris for 2019. Rmhermen (talk) 16:53, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Garden II 20-80MW, 2019-2020 phases, Rmhermen (talk) 17:18, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * DTE mentioned 3 wind farms to come online by November 2020 with 383MW total. Which ones? Rmhermen (talk) 17:03, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Polaris came online in April but three more still listed for 2020. Rmhermen (talk) 20:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Apex 75-turbine “Montcalm Wind” project for 2024, Deerfield Wind Farm stage II, other? Rmhermen (talk) 19:10, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 72.8MW Fairbanks Wind March 2021, 383.5MW Isabella Rmhermen (talk) 17:20, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

decommissioned
Traverse city's is scheduled for removal. Rmhermen (talk) 23:25, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
 * It was transferred to another owner. Rmhermen (talk) 02:46, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Charts are confusing
The first chart shows that Michigan as of 2021 has 2,681 Megawatts of nameplate capacity, which is 2.681 Gigawatts. Yet in the Wind generation by Year table in 2020 we actually generated 6,734 million (6,734,000,000) KWH of electricity or 6,734 GW. Tfoydel (talk) 10:25, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Very late response but GW and GWhr are measure different things. Rmhermen (talk) 04:06, 19 May 2024 (UTC)