Onshore wind · United States
Aurora County Wind
Operational20 MWChecked 6 October 2026
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 20 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator
- RWE Clean Energy
- Location
- Aurora County, South Dakota, United States
- First operating
- 2018
- Balancing authority
- SWPP
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Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Aurora County Wind. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).
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Incidents at onshore wind farms in the United States
The register holds 95 incidents at onshore wind farms in the United States, 32 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
- Wind turbine blade falls onto farmland at Biglow Canyon
- Engie wind farm damaged by high winds in South Dakota
- Planned detonation removes damaged blade at Cross Winds wind farm
- Lightning strike suspected in wind turbine fire at La Casa Wind Farm, Texas
- Nacelle fire damages turbine at Waymart Wind Farm near Browndale, Pennsylvania
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M (Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory). The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.