NPPD moving forward with Broken Bow wind farm
Credit: By BETSY FRIEDRICH Hub Staff Writer, Kearney Hub, www.kearneyhub.com 21 January 2010
BROKEN BOW – Plans for an 80-megawatt wind farm facility east of Broken Bow will become a reality in 2012.
Nebraska Public Power District announced in a press release today it is working on a 20-year power purchase agreement with Midwest Wind Energy of Chicago and Edison Mission of Irvine, Calif..
“They get what we call federal production tax credits-roughly 2 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity generated. Nebraska Public Power doesn’t get that,” said Mark Becker, spokesperson for NPPD.
“We put out bids and we took the best bid. They will build the facility and operate it and then we have a set agreement that we’ll purchase the electrical output.”
Becker said the facility will be approximately 53 wind turbines in a 9,000- to 11,000-acre area and is expected to be operational in September 2012.
Tags: Wind power, Wind energy
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