Bright Stalk Wind Farm

The Bright Stalk Wind Farm is a 57-turbine wind farm near Chenoa in northeastern McLean County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The turbines were designed to generate a maximum of 205 megawatts of electricity. The complex was completed in 2019 by EDP Renewables North America at a cost of more than $300 million, and entered operations in 2020.

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The Bright Stalk project's 57 wind turbines are each rated at 3.6 mW. 203 megawatts of the project's overall 205-mW capacity were pre-sold to Walmart and Salesforce. The project owner states that the wind farm has created nine permanent jobs in and around Chenoa.