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The Smoky Hills Wind Farm (Phase I) is a 100.8 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Lincoln County, 140 miles west of Topeka in Kansas, north of Ellsworth. Highway K-14 and Interstate 70 pass through parts of the wind farm. The project uses 56 Vestas V80 1.8 MW wind turbines and produces enough electricity to power some 37,000 average Kansas homes annually. Phase II is under construction with 99 GE Energy 1.5 MW wind turbines for an additional 148.5 MW, to bring the total nameplate capacity to 249.3 MW