Idaho wind-farm complex completed | Business | Idaho Statesman
The acreage hosts Idaho’s largest portfolio of wind farms, the partners in the farms said Thursday.
Construction was completed in just five months, resulting in the installation of 122 General Electric 1.5-megawatt turbines. The turbines are now operational, delivering energy to Idaho Power Co. and its customers, the partners said.
The farms are a partnership of GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, and Boise-based Exergy Development Group, Atlantic Power Corp. and Reunion Power.
The farms are capable of generating 183 megawatts of energy, enough to power 39,700 average Idaho homes, and are positioned on 11 sites near the Oregon Trail in two topographically diverse regions in southern Idaho situated 70 miles apart.
Despite the distance between them, they are able to operate as a unified system, enabling operating efficiencies, or on a site-by-site basis, the companies said.
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