<P> Wind power in Indiana was limited to a few small water - pumping windmills on farms until 2008 with construction of Indiana's first utility - scale wind power facility, Goodland (phase I) with a nameplate capacity of 130 MW . As of January 2016, Indiana had a total of 1895 MW of wind power capacity installed, ranking it 12th among U.S. states . </P> <P> The main utility - scale development up to 2016 has been in the northwest part of the state in Benton, White, and Jasper Counties . Fowler Ridge phase III should be completed later in 2010, to give a final nameplate capacity of 750 MW, making Fowler Ridge the Midwest's largest wind farm, and one of the largest in the world . Phases II - VI at Meadow Lake, when complete, will make Meadow Lake even larger at 1000 MW . </P>

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