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Whitney Hill Wind Farm

wind farm in Illinois, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ115801387 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Whitney Hill Wind Farm is a 24-turbine wind farm near Mount Pulaski in southeastern Logan County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The project was developed by Enel Green Power.

Detail

The Whitney Hill complex's 24 wind turbines were completed in December 2019. The project was designed to generate a maximum of 65.3 megawatts of electricity. The Whitney Hill complex utilizes leasehold rights to 5,000 acres of land.

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The public source identifies “Whitney Hill Wind Farm” as wind farm in Illinois, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Whitney, Hill and Wind.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Whitney, Hill and Wind providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115801387. Authority coordinates are 39.957, -89.311. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Whitney Hill Wind Farm” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.