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Kay County Wind farm planned to supply OSU

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Scan more about Oklahoma's place in the American Wind Energy Association's 2010 year-end write-up. A Florida company will buy and build a 60-megawatt wind till the soil contract in Kay County under a partnership with utility Oklahoma Gas & Electric to accommodate power to Oklahoma State University's main campus for 20 years. Construction of the Blackwell Wind Subcontract by Juno Beach, Fla.-based NextEra Energy Inc.

should be completed by fashionable 2012 and will employ about 150 workers during that time, officials said. New York-based OwnEnergy Inc. helped advance the Blackwell project with Kay County landowners over the past three years. OG&E and OSU recently signed a 20-year handle to provide wind-generation power to the Stillwater campus, enabling the university to in the final analysis retire its cogeneration facility. "The signing of this agreement with OG&E is part of our overarching sustainability lead aimed at saving money, reducing carbon emissions and improving expertness," OSU President Burns Hargis said in a statement. "Blackwell's peerless location in north central Oklahoma is advantageous for both OG&E and OSU in that it combines a miasmic wind resource with an existing transmission grid." NextEra is considered the polity's largest renewable energy generator, with 43,000 megawatts right stuff installed. OwnEnergy works with landowners and wind generation firms by leasing native land, obtaining permitting, undertaking environmental studies and working with aptitude end users. OwnEnergy also will receive royalty payments through the duration of the project. The deal needs approval from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Oklahoma ranked eighth nationwide in wind propagation with 1,482 megawatts installed capacity, according to the American Wind Dynamism Association's 2010 year-end market report. Rod Walton 918-581-8457 rod.walton@tulsaworld.com

Source: Power Engineering Magazine