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OKIsItJustMe

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Sat Jul 29, 2017, 05:05 PM Jul 2017

Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy Announce America's Largest Wind Farm

https://invenergyllc.com/news/invenergy-and-ge-renewable-energy-announce-americas-largest-wind-farm

July 26, 2017

Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy Announce America’s Largest Wind Farm

Renewable giga-project Wind Catcher Energy Connection to link more than 1.1 million South Central U.S. customers with cost-saving wind energy harvested from Oklahoma.

The 2,000-megawatt Wind Catcher facility will be world’s second-largest wind farm, once operational in 2020.

CHICAGO (July 26, 2017) – Invenergy, North America’s largest independent, privately-held renewable energy company, along with GE Renewable Energy, today announced a 2,000-megawatt wind farm that will be the largest in the U.S. and second-largest in the world, once operational. The Wind Catcher facility is currently under construction in the Oklahoma panhandle and will generate wind electricity from 800 state-of-the-art GE 2.5 megawatt turbines.

The wind facility is part of the $4.5 billion Wind Catcher Energy Connection that also includes an approximately 350-mile dedicated, extra-high voltage power line. American Electric Power (AEP) utility subsidiaries Public Service Co. of Oklahoma (PSO) and Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) are asking utility regulators in in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma to approve plans to purchase the wind farm from Invenergy upon completion of construction and to build the power line to serve PSO and SWEPCO’s more than 1.1 million customers.

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Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy Announce America's Largest Wind Farm (Original Post) OKIsItJustMe Jul 2017 OP
Gee, it's only taken 30 years for these a-holes DK504 Jul 2017 #1
Perhaps it has something to do with them making a profit? OKIsItJustMe Jul 2017 #3
Enough to power one percent of USA homes Cicada Jul 2017 #2

DK504

(3,847 posts)
1. Gee, it's only taken 30 years for these a-holes
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 06:04 PM
Jul 2017

to do something. I wonder if they want a nice slap on the back and expect an atta-boy. Maybe if some of these the welfare queens, also known as energy companies get solar farms they want a parade thrown for them.

I can't get excited when these companies have taken billions in tax breaks and done ZERO for renewable energies. F them.

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