Platte River Power Authority’s announcement that it would buy 150 megawatts of electric capacity from a new wind farm will mean that the power wholesaler and its member cities such as Loveland will be getting 48 percent of their electricity from renewable sources.
The agency announced Tuesday that it had signed a power purchase agreement with Salt Lake City-based Enyo Renewable Energy.
The deal means all of the electricity generated by the wind farm to be built along the Colorado-Wyoming border will go to PRPA and the cities that own it: Loveland, Longmont, Fort Collins and Estes Park, according to Platte River spokesman Steve Roalstad.
He said the project should start selling electricity from the wind farm by the end of 2020. The contract runs through June 2042, Roalstad said.
The wind farm will be about 20 miles north of PRPA’s Rawhide Energy Station, which is north of Wellington, and a transmission line will be built to carry the power to the agency’s Rawhide substation, he said.
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