NPPD is buying the entire output. It will then turn around and sell 60 percent to the Omaha Public Power District and keep the rest for its customers. The move will bring NPPD to within 23 megawatts of its goal of having 10 percent of its electricity come from renewable resources by 2020.
NPPD is buying the entire output. It will then turn around and sell 60 percent to the Omaha Public Power District and keep the rest for its customers. The move will bring NPPD to within 23 megawatts of its goal of having 10 percent of its electricity come from renewable resources by 2020.
The Nebraska Public Power District has signed a 25-year contract to buy power from an expanding wind farm at Broken Bow. The agreement with Sempra U.S. Gas and Power was approved Thursday by the NPPD Board of Directors.
The original wind farm, BB1, is located northeast of Broken Bow. It consists of 50 turbines capable of producing a total of 80 megawatts of power — an amount equivalent to what 25,000 Nebraska homes use on average in a year. Commercial operation began Dec. 1, 2012.
NPPD buys 51 megawatts from the 10,000-acre farm. The Omaha Public Power District purchases 18 megawatts, the Lincoln Electric System buys 10 megawatts and 1 megawatt goes to the City of Grand Island.
Jeanne Schieffer, NPPD corporate communications and public …
... more [truncated due to possible copyright]The Nebraska Public Power District has signed a 25-year contract to buy power from an expanding wind farm at Broken Bow. The agreement with Sempra U.S. Gas and Power was approved Thursday by the NPPD Board of Directors.
The original wind farm, BB1, is located northeast of Broken Bow. It consists of 50 turbines capable of producing a total of 80 megawatts of power — an amount equivalent to what 25,000 Nebraska homes use on average in a year. Commercial operation began Dec. 1, 2012.
NPPD buys 51 megawatts from the 10,000-acre farm. The Omaha Public Power District purchases 18 megawatts, the Lincoln Electric System buys 10 megawatts and 1 megawatt goes to the City of Grand Island.
Jeanne Schieffer, NPPD corporate communications and public relations manager, said plans to expand the farm have been in the works for a while.
The project switched hands in the fall of 2013 when, according to Schieffer, Sempra bought it from Midwest Wind Energy.
The farm addition will be known as Broken Bow 2, or BB2. It will add another 43 turbines with a 75-megawatt production capacity to the area. That’s enough to electricity to power about 30,000 Nebraska homes, according to Sempra.
NPPD is buying the entire output. It will then turn around and sell 60 percent to the Omaha Public Power District and keep the rest for its customers.
The move will bring NPPD to within 23 megawatts of its goal of having 10 percent of its electricity come from renewable resources by 2020.
Construction of the meteorological towers used to collect wind data is expected to begin on the farm later this month. Delivery of the turbines will start in March and continue through August.
Sempra estimates the project will create 300 jobs during the peak of construction. Commercial operation is expected by the end of 2014.
Turbines are capable of producing 80 megawatts
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