Los Vientos Windpower III
Duke Energy Renewables Services · Starr County · ERCOT
Los Vientos Windpower III is a wind power facility with 200 MW of EIA-reported operating capacity in Starr County, Texas, registered as EIA Plant ID 59320. Duke Energy Renewables Services is the registered plant entity or operator. It participates in the ERCOT energy market.
Overview
Key fields
- Reported capacity
- 200 MW
EIA-reported operating capacity; nameplate, seasonal, AC/DC, and unit ratings may differ.
- Technology
- Onshore Wind Turbine
Primary generation technology.
- Registry anchor
- Plant 59320
Duke Energy Renewables Services · Starr County · ERCOT
- Operating status
- Operating
Los Vientos Windpower III is operating.
- Resource stack
- 1 resource
LV3_UNIT_1
Profile
- Grid role
- Utility-scale wind generation in ERCOT's energy-only market.
- Physical build
- 100 × Vestas V110-2.0 MW onshore wind turbines installed (200 MW total). Project construction contractor: Wanzek Construction; Vestas provided three-year O&M service agreement at commissioning.
Structured profile
- Reported capacity
- 200 MW
Onshore Wind Turbine
- Operating status
- operating
Los Vientos Windpower III is operating.
- Location
- Starr County
ERCOT
- Operator
- Duke Energy Renewables Services
- Asset role
- wind
ERCOT · Starr County
- Owner
- Los Vientos Windpower III, LLC (owned/operated within Duke Energy Renewables portfolio)
The plant directory shows the registered owner as 'Los Vientos Windpower III, LLC' (with a listed address) and also lists Duke Energy Renewables Services as the utility/operator; the Duke Energy press release confirms Duke Energy Renewables as the developer/owner-operator organization. The owner_name field therefore reflects the registered project LLC and the Duke Energy Renewables portfolio relationship.
Units and generators
Operating generator records and technology attributes reported through EIA-860.
| Generator | Capacity | Technology | Operation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEN1 | 200 MW 200 MW summer | Onshore Wind Turbine Wind · WT | Apr 2015 | Operating |
Performance
Monthly EIA generation history and recent market-resource behavior where linked telemetry is available.
Peer context
- Technology capacity
- 200 MW
- National rank
- #276
- TX rank
- #93
Monthly generation
Download CSVMonthly generation is reported through EIA-923. Capacity factor uses the current EIA nameplate capacity and is shown only for complete calendar years.
ERCOT disclosed dispatch
1 ERCOT market resource · Wind
Generation
3 mo through May 22, 2026Capacity factor is average output vs. this plant's observed peak.
Output by hourlocal time · 90 days through May 22, 2026
Latest disclosed outputhourly · 2 weeks ending May 22, 2026
Generation from ERCOT's 60-Day SCED Disclosure (≈60-day lag), summed over this site's market resources.
Grid and market context
Deterministic links to ERCOT market resources, price records, outage disclosures, queue records, and nearby infrastructure. Candidate joins remain labeled until corroborated.
Market registration
ERCOT public disclosuresOperating context
ERCOT market recordsNearby substations
HIFLD infrastructure inventoryCommercial, land, and environmental record
Source-backed project transactions, agreements, land records, permits, and environmental disclosures. Portfolio and adjacent-project facts remain explicitly scoped.
Land and environmental record
Related parties and identifiers
Parties, market resources, and identifiers tied to this asset, with owner, operator, developer, EPC, compliance provider, and interconnecting entity roles kept separate.
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Parties and identifiers
| Relationship | Entity | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Operator | Los Vientos Windpower III, LLC | Registered entity associated with Los Vientos Windpower III. |
| Operator | Operator associated with Los Vientos Windpower III. | |
| Equipment OEM | Equipment OEM associated with Los Vientos Windpower III. | |
| Market resources | LV3_UNIT_1 | Linked ERCOT resources. |
| Grid selection | plant:plant-59320 | Canonical asset page /ercot/assets/plant/los-vientos-windpower-iii. |
Reporting portfolio
| Largest reported plants | Capacity | State |
|---|---|---|
| Frontier Windpower II | 351.8 MW | OK |
| Pisgah Ridge Solar, LLC | 250 MW | TX |
| Mesquite Creek Wind | 211.2 MW | TX |
| Ledyard Windpower, LLC | 207 MW | IA |
| Mesteno | 201.6 MW | TX |
| Los Vientos Wind 1B | 201.6 MW | TX |
| Rambler | 200 MW | TX |
| Los Vientos Windpower IV | 200 MW | TX |
Portfolio membership follows the latest EIA-860 reporting entity. It does not imply ultimate ownership.
View full reporting portfolioTimeline and sources
Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.
Project timeline
- Generator enters operationEIA-860
EIA-860 lists generator GEN1 with this operating date.
- Commercial Operation (Unit)Source
PUC report lists Los Vientos Windpower III Unit 1 (200 MW) commercial operation date as April 24, 2015; developer press release reported completion milestones in May 2015.
- Operator / ownership record change (operator timeline)Source
Operator records show Los Vientos Windpower III, LLC listed as previous operator for 2013–2021 and Duke Energy Renewables Services listed 2022–2024, indicating an operator/ownership transition around 2021–2022.
- Latest disclosed generation interval
ERCOT SCED disclosure is delayed, so plant performance windows end at the latest disclosed interval.
Sources
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