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Otter Tail Power seeks to buy into wind farm
Published Thursday, May 1, 2008
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Otter Tail Power Co. wants to own part of North Dakota’s largest wind farm in eastern North Dakota.
FPL Energy is developing the 200-megawatt project in Barnes County, east of Lake Ashtabula. Otter Tail Power said in a statement it will own 48 megawatts of the project’s output.
Otter Tail President Chuck MacFarlane says the Fergus Falls, Minn., utility plans to invest $121 million in the Ashtabula Wind Center. The sum includes the cost of wind turbines, construction and electric transmission lines.
North Dakota’s Public Service Commission is holding a siting hearing for the wind farm and power lines in Valley City on Friday. The wind farm’s developers want to finish construction by year’s end.
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is this the real reason behind the rate inrease they wanted?
Posted by Golden (anonymous) on May 2, 2008 at 10:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I can't wait to see my largely inflated "resource adjustment" next winter.
Posted by thinkB4Uspeak (anonymous) on May 2, 2008 at 2:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Pretty sure the resource adjustment will go DOWN because they won't have to buy power on the open market if the wind generators are producing enough to cover the demand.
This should be a GOOD thing for their customers.
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