Canadian firm buys Grant County wind project for $200M
Resource from: Beckley Register-Herald 30 Nov,2015
CHARLESTON (AP) — A Canadian energy firm is spending $200 million take over a stalled wind project in West Virginia's Grant County, and hopes to have the 49-turbine wind farm up and running by the end of next year, the company said.
Alberta-based Enbridge said this week that has bought the New Creek Wind Project from EverPower and intends to have the project in operation in December 2016, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reports (http://bit.ly/1LFcPnB ).
The 49-turbines of the 103-megwatt project, which has been in development since at least 2008, are expected to run on a seven-mile stretch of ridgeline near Greenland in northern Grant County.
Enbridge is the third company to own the New Creek Wind Project.
Arlington, Virginia-based company AES Corp. first proposed the wind farm and hoped to have it in service in 2012, but construction was suspended after the Federal Aviation Administration said the project failed to meet certain criteria.
Pittsburg-based wind power company EverPower bought the project from AES in 2014.
The initial proposal was for 64 turbines that could generate 160 megawatts of power, but the project has been scaled back. Gamesa, a Spanish company, will provide the 49 turbines that will have blades that are 155 feet long.
Vern Yu, an Enbridge vice president, said in a statement that the project will advance the company's goal of growing its renewable energy platform. Enbridge focuses primarily on oil and gas pipelines.
(Beckley Register-Herald)
