Wind power in Indiana

Wind power in Indiana was limited to a few small water-pumping windmills on farms until 2008 with construction of Indiana's first utility-scale wind power facility, Goodland (phase I) with a nameplate capacity of 130 MW.

As of March of 2024, Indiana had a total of 2,743 MW of wind power capacity installed, ranking it 12th among U.S.

[2] The main utility-scale development up to 2016 has been in the northwest part of the state in Benton, White, and Jasper Counties.

[3][4] The following table compares the growth in wind power installed nameplate capacity in MW for Indiana and the entire United States from 2007 through 2019.

This predicted potential growth is starting to materialize now, with 15 wind projects currently online in the state.

36 x Vestas 150 In addition to the above wind farms, single stand-alone units have also been built in multiple other locations, mostly at schools.

[24][25] As of March 2010[update] Indiana lacked a renewable energy standard, unlike several other midwestern states: Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Iowa.

Utility incentives target customers that have their own small wind energy systems (no greater than 1 MW).

The FIT program, only adopted by the utility company Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), pays their customers per kWh of energy produced by their wind turbine, opposed to offering a credit.

The state of Indiana also implemented a voluntary Clean Energy Portfolio Standard (CPS) in May 2011.

The Business Energy Tax Credit, as of September 18, 2017, is only available to large wind turbines (greater than 100 kW in capacity) and was set to expire on December 31, 2019.