BURLINGTON — Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke Energy announced Monday that the 51-megawatt Kit Carson wind farm near Burlington is up and running on the Eastern Plains, providing enough electricity to power up to 14,000 homes.
The Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association is buying the power produced by the farm under a 20-year agreement with a Duke subsidiary.
It’s the first large wind-power deal for Tri-State, which supplies power to about 1 million people through rural electric cooperatives in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming.
The wind farm has 34 1.5-megawatt turbines spread across 6,000 acres. Before it was built, Tri-State only got 1 percent of its power from wind and solar sources. Tri-State also plans to get power from a solar plant near Cimarron, N.M., which is expected to be completed by year’s end. The Associated Press
