USGS US Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) Scraper

Extract the complete US Wind Turbine Database maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey in partnership with the American Clean Power Association, U.S. Department of Energy, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The USWTDB tracks every utility-scale wind turbine in the United States — over 75,000 records — including precise geolocation, project metadata, FAA identifiers, manufacturer, model, capacity, hub height, rotor diameter, and offshore status.

This is a federally maintained, regulator-grade renewable energy asset registry. Operators in the wind industry, industrial component suppliers, EPC contractors, O&M service providers, financial analysts, and ESG researchers all rely on this data — but the upstream API has a steep learning curve. This Actor wraps it in a friendly input form and outputs clean JSON.

Data fields

Field	Description
projectName	Wind farm / project name
manufacturer	Turbine OEM (e.g. GE Wind, Vestas, Siemens, Nordex)
model	Specific turbine model (e.g. GE1.6-91)
turbineCapacityKw	Individual turbine nameplate capacity in kilowatts
projectCapacityMw	Full project nameplate capacity in megawatts
projectYear	Year the project came online
projectTurbineCount	Total turbines in the project
state, county, fips	Location identifiers
latitude, longitude	Precise turbine geolocation
hubHeightM, rotorDiameterM, totalHeightM	Physical dimensions in meters
rotorSweptAreaSqm	Rotor swept area in square meters
offshore	Whether turbine is offshore
retrofitted, retrofitYear	Whether turbine has been retrofitted and when
faaOrs, faaAsn	FAA obstruction registry / aeronautical study number
eiaPlantId	Cross-reference to EIA-860 plant ID
imageDate, imageSource	Source/date of confirming imagery

How to scrape USWTDB wind turbine data

1. Pick a filter scope. Run wide (all of Texas, all of Iowa) or narrow (one wind farm by name).
2. Set state to a two-letter US state code (TX, IA, OK, CA).
3. (Optional) Set manufacturer (GE, Vestas, Siemens) to filter by OEM.
4. (Optional) Set minYear to find recently commissioned turbines.
5. (Optional) Set offshoreOnly to true for offshore-only output.
6. Set maxResults to 0 for the full database (~75,000 turbines) or any cap.
7. Click Start.

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.003 per turbine record. A full national pull (~75,000 records) costs around $225; most users run targeted state/manufacturer pulls of a few hundred to a few thousand records. Apify compute costs are billed separately by Apify.

Input example

{
  "state": "TX",
  "manufacturer": "GE",
  "minYear": 2020,
  "maxResults": 2000
}

Output example

{
  "projectName": "Leaning Juniper",
  "manufacturer": "GE Wind",
  "model": "GE1.6-91",
  "turbineCapacityKw": 1600,
  "projectYear": 2006,
  "projectTurbineCount": 67,
  "projectCapacityMw": 109.2,
  "state": "OR",
  "county": "Gilliam County",
  "latitude": 45.6736,
  "longitude": -120.20058,
  "hubHeightM": 80,
  "rotorDiameterM": 91,
  "totalHeightM": 125.6,
  "offshore": false,
  "retrofitted": true,
  "retrofitYear": 2019,
  "faaOrs": "41-001026",
  "eiaPlantId": 56360
}

Use cases

• Industrial supplier targeting: cross-reference manufacturer + model + project age to predict gearbox / generator / blade replacement opportunities.
• EPC / O&M business development: build territorial lead lists by county for service contracts.
• ESG / portfolio analysis: aggregate installed capacity by state, county, or operator.
• Asset-level diligence: pull project- and turbine-level fundamentals for renewable energy M&A.
• Aviation / radar / siting studies: cross-reference FAA identifiers and exact coordinates.

FAQ

Is the data current? USWTDB is updated quarterly by USGS. Every Actor run fetches live data — no caching.

Are coordinates precise? Yes. Each turbine is located individually via aerial / satellite imagery. Confidence fields are exposed for both attribute completeness and location precision.

Can I get a single wind farm? Yes — set projectName to the wind farm name (partial match supported).

Legal

Data sourced from the U.S. Geological Survey US Wind Turbine Database (https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/), a US Government public dataset. All records are publicly accessible. Use at your own discretion. This Actor performs no authentication bypass and respects upstream rate limits.

For questions or custom field requests, contact the Actor author through the Apify console.