Wind farms change more than people expect: turbines get replaced, capacity grows, sometimes names change entirely. Here are ten wind turbine farms around the world, checked and updated for 2026.
1- Yabmana, South Australia, Australia
Yabmana was the working title back when it was still a proposal. Once it got built, between Cowell and Cleve on the Eyre Peninsula, they called it Mount Millar instead. 35 turbines, 70 MW, running since Feb 2006. First wind farm in South Australia to skip the gearbox entirely and go direct-drive, which sounds like a technical footnote until you remember gearboxes are usually the first part to die on an aging turbine.
2. Bangui, Ilocos Region, Philippines
Southeast Asia hadn’t seen a wind farm before this one. Twenty turbines, single file, nine kilometers of coastline, all facing the sea. Capacity crept up over time, 33 MW originally, 41 MW now across 26 turbines, and it still covers more than 40% of Ilocos Norte’s power. There’s a bigger one coming too: 136 MW, cleared its environmental scoping review this past July.
3. Arlington, Wyoming, United States
PacifiCorp’s first wind bet, way back in 1998. 69 turbines, barely 600 kW apiece, towers under 200 feet. Almost all of that is getting torn out right now and swapped for around a dozen new turbines standing closer to 500 feet, each one worth several of the old ones on its own. Total output caps out near the same 41 MW either way. Just far less metal doing the work.
4. Reußenköge Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Reussenkoge, as of 2023 the actual largest onshore wind farm in Germany at 255 MW. Schleswig-Holstein is Germany’s windiest state by a wide margin, sitting right against the North Sea where the wind barely stops.
5- South Cobbinshaw, Scotland, United Kingdom
Coal mine turned wetland turned wind farm. That’s not a metaphor; that’s literally what happened to the ground under these 88 turbines. 188 MW. Opened 2006, briefly the biggest in the UK before bigger ones came along. The land conversion story is honestly more interesting than the turbine count.
6- Manawatu, New Zealand
The gorge itself does most of the work here, funneling wind between two mountain ranges hard enough that this farm runs at 45% of its max capacity, way above the roughly 30% global average. 55 Vestas turbines, 90.75 MW, first farm ever to feed New Zealand’s national grid. One thing worth knowing for 2026: it quietly hit the end of its original design life back in 2024, so repowering news out of this site wouldn’t be a surprise.
7- Clocaenog Forest, UK
Clocaenog Forest, opened 2022, sitting inside a working forest near Denbigh. 27 turbines, 96 MW, close to 64,000 homes worth of power, and RWE’s largest UK onshore project. £19 million committed to the local community fund over the project’s life.
8- Goldendale, Washington, United States
Biggest in the state. 500 MW across 26 miles of ridgeline above the Columbia River, built fast, two phases done by 2009. Fifteen of the turbines sit on land leased from the Maryhill Museum of Art, and this is apparently the first wind project in the US paying steady revenue to a nonprofit museum.
9- Livermore, California, United States
Wind power in America basically started here, 1981. It’s also the reason wind farms got a reputation for killing birds, thousands of old, tightly packed turbines on lattice towers, raptors everywhere, worst body count of any wind site in the country. That’s what a decade-plus of repowering has been fixing. One recent swap: 569 old 100 kW turbines came down, 23 new ones went up. More power, a fraction of the blades.
10- Klondike, Oregon, United States – Photographer :- Scott Ripley
Four phases, 2001 to 2008, landed at 242 turbines and 399 MW. Still Oregon’s biggest wind site. It’s also doubled as a testing ground for new turbine tech, including an early Mitsubishi model with a rotor wider than any production airplane’s wingspan at the time.
Conclusion
That’s the current picture across all ten wind turbine farms, from Scotland to Oregon. Worth another look in a few years; wind energy doesn’t sit still for long. Tell us in the comments what other wind farm you know of.
