September 19, 2008—Duke Energy announced recently a long-term agreement for the sale of 99 megawatts of electricity from its new Wyoming wind farm, as well as the purchase of 100 wind turbines from General Electric that will produce 150 megawatts of power at multiple US sites. Both transactions accelerate Duke Energy’s continued growth in renewable energy.
Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS), a business unit of Duke Energy, owns and develops renewable energy assets. Duke Energy will begin building the Campbell Hill Wind power project near Casper, Wyoming, early next year. The facility’s 66 wind turbines will begin generating electricity by late 2009.
PacifiCorp, which operates as Rocky Mountain Power in Wyoming, has entered into a 20-year agreement to purchase all of the power generated by the Campbell Hill project. The output from the project will go into the utility’s integrated electric system, serving customers in Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and California.
Separately, Duke Energy executed an agreement to purchase the General Electric wind turbines for its 2010 wind power generation projects.
By the end of 2008, Duke Energy will have more than 500 megawatts of wind-powered generation projects in operation and an additional 5,000 megawatts in development, it says.
For more information, see the Duke Energy Web site.
