Renewable Energy Systems Americas (RES Americas) has completed and commissioned the 110 MW Keechi wind project located in Jack County of Texas in US.
Keechi project has installed 55 V100-2.0MW turbines from Vestas which will yield 430,000 MWh annually. The plant is owned by Enbridge.
Vestas will operate and maintain the turbines for the first five years.
Under a 20 year PPA signed with Microsoft, electricity generated at the project will supplied into the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
The construction of the project started in December 2013 and was completed in January this year.
The wind farm connects to Brazos Electric’s Joplin substation through a 12-mile generation tie line.
Keechi Wind was developed by RES Americas and constructed under a fixed-price, engineering, procurement, and construction agreement.
The project was RES Americas’ first one in which it self-performed the turbine installation.
The project forms a part of the Neutral Footprint program formulated by Enbridge, which aims to generate a kilowatt of renewable energy for every additional kilowatt of conventional electricity that the company’s liquids pipelines operations consume.
About 250 jobs were created by the project during the peak of construction.
Last month, RES America entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement with Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative for 114 MW of wind energy and associated renewable energy credits in the Thumb of Michigan.
The wind power will be sourced from the Deerfield Wind Energy project, which is located in Huron County, Michigan.
The project, located in the townships of Huron, Bloomfield, Dwight, and Lincoln, will provide up to 200 jobs during the peak of construction.
In another development, RES Americas announced the substantial completion of the Tucannon River Wind Farm in Washington State.
RES Americas served as the Balance of Plant (BOP) construction contractor for the project’s owner, Portland General Electric (PGE), an investor owned utility in Oregon.
Located in Washington’s Columbia County, the 267 MW project consists of 116 2.3 MW Siemens turbines and is expected to produce enough clean energy to power approximately 84,000 homes.
The project was completed for a fixed price budget of $500 million, excluding AFDC.
Sabeena Wahid
editor@greentechlead.com