First Ohio utility-size wind farm to be completed this year
Aug. 29, 2003
Green Mountain Energy Co., Austin, Tex., along with Columbus, Ohio-based American Municipal Power-Ohio (AMP-Ohio) and the City of Bowling Green, Ohio, broke ground Friday preparatory to beginning construction of two 1.8 Mw wind turbines west of Bowling Green, south of Toledo.
By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 29 -- Green Mountain Energy Co., Austin, Tex., along with Columbus, Ohio-based American Municipal Power-Ohio (AMP-Ohio) and the City of Bowling Green, Ohio, broke ground Friday preparatory to beginning construction of two 1.8 Mw wind turbines west of Bowling Green, south of Toledo.
The wind farm—the first utility-size wind farm in the state—is expected to be completed and generating power by yearend.
The two turbines, which combined will generate 6.9 million kw-hr/year of electricity—enough to power about 785 homes—will be tied to the electric grid through a Bowling Green Municipal Utilities substation.
Bowling Green Utility Director Daryl Stockburger said Green Energy Ohio shared wind testing data it had collected for several years in the Bowling Green area, enabling construction of the wind farm at least a year earlier than otherwise would have been possible.
