Wind development recordsFIPS 17113Not a lease-rate estimate

Wind development data in McLean County, Illinois

Public county project and grid context. This is not a lease-rate estimate, property listing, indication of parcel suitability, or evidence that an organization wants to lease a particular property.

9Active queue requestsLBNL Queued Up interconnection queue dataset
1,801 MWActive requested capacityRequested, not built
6Operating facilitiesEIA-860 final annual generator inventory
224 miTransmission in countyHIFLD electric power transmission lines

Interconnection queue requests

Queue activity

Source: LBNL Queued Up interconnection queue dataset. Queue requests are proposals seeking interconnection; they are not planned or operating facility counts.

Active queue requests

9

Tracked requests currently marked active

Active requested capacity

1,801 MW

Requested capacity attributed to this county

2019-2025 complete years

02462019: 1 requests2020: 3 requests2021: 1 requests2022: 1 requests2023: 2 requests2024: 5 requests2025: 3 requests2019202020212022202320242025
Tracked requests per complete year
YearTracked requests
20191
20203
20211
20221
20232
20245
20253

Facility facts

Planned and operating facilities

Planned facilities

0

0 MW · EIA-860 final annual generator inventory

Operating facilities

6

1,041 MW · EIA-860 final annual generator inventory

Queue request status is not used as a substitute for facility construction or operating status.

Independent operating inventory

Wind facilities

8

U.S. Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB)

Installed turbines

557

Individual turbine records in this county

Observed capacity

1,276 MW

Source release 2026-06-26

Latest operation year

2023

Latest source record represented in this county

This inventory is shown separately from EIA generators and LBNL queue requests to avoid double-counting records across datasets.

Retirement facts

Facility retirements

The EIA-860 final annual generator inventory lists no retired wind facilities in McLean County.

Public record attribution

Organizations named in queue requests

OrganizationQueue requestsCapacityLatest request year
Lexington Chenoa Wind Farm LLC1150 MW2019

A name in an interconnection queue request does not mean the organization is seeking land in this county or has an interest in a particular parcel.

Infrastructure context

Grid infrastructure context

Source: HIFLD electric power transmission lines.

Transmission in county

224 miles

Highest recorded voltage

345 kV

Nearest line to county center

1.6 km

County infrastructure does not establish available grid capacity. A specific project requires parcel-level engineering and an interconnection study.

Private comparable contribution

Have an actual offer or signed lease from this county?

Public development records do not tell us what a landowner was offered. Directly submitted terms enter a separate private review workflow and never become a raw public record.

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If you have been approached about wind land here, or have already signed, the terms you remember can help build future comparable coverage for McLean County. A submission does not mean this county currently has comparable coverage. Terms stay private during review, and no raw terms or parcel identity are published.

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