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Wind turbines in West Virginia

West Virginia has 367 wind turbines: 0.5% of the US total of 77,649. That ranks #27 by count and #19 per person (20.73 per 100,000 residents) of 51.

#19

national rank (per capita)

367

wind turbines

20.73

per 100k residents

The data

Source: U.S. Wind Turbine Database v9.1 (USGS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, American Clean Power), September 2026. Every turbine in the database inside the 50 states and DC, placed at its own coordinates. Leaves out turbines in federal offshore waters and the territories. Block Island’s five, just off Rhode Island, count in Rhode Island.

Licence: U.S. government data: no copyright, free to reuse

West Virginia: 367 rows (CSV)All of the US (CSV)

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Named wind turbines in West Virginia include

Beech Ridge · Beech Ridge II · Black Rock · Laurel Mountain · Mountaineer Wind Energy Center (Thomas) · NedPower Mount Storm, Phase I · NedPower Mount Storm, Phase II · New Creek Wind · Pinnacle · unknown Grant County

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