TVIG Constructs 27 Megawatt Wind Farm for Tennessee Valley Authority Grid

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Tennessee Valley Infrastructure Group Incorporated (TVIG) (Chattanooga, Tennessee) is building a 27 megawatt (MW) wind farm on Buffalo Mountain in Briceville, Anderson County, Tennessee. The wind farm is being built for Invenergy Wind LLC, an affiliate of Invenergy LLC (Chicago, Illinois), which will sell the power to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) (Knoxville, Tennessee), under a twenty-year power purchase agreement. These fifteen wind turbine/generators will join the three others that TVA had installed in 2000-2001, as a test for renewable resources.

The new wind turbine/generators being installed are 1.8MW Vestas model V80. The original three were also Vestas but they were the model V47. Construction started on June 2, 2004, four years after the initial construction. When complete in October 2004, there will be a total of eighteen wind turbine/generators producing 30 MW on the mountain.

Invenergy was formed in 2001 to acquire, develop, own, and operate generation assets. This will be their second generation plant, after having acquired the combined-cycle Hardee Power Station in Hardee County Florida. Hardee is a 370 MW facility, so with the completion of Buffalo Mountain, they will have nearly 400 MW of generation and over 2,500 MW in development.

TVIG was founded in 1998 they provide consulting, construction, engineering, purchasing, and operation services for the utility industry. It services companies all over the world. This is their third wind power project to be built in the United States. The first project was the Kimball County Wind Farm 10.5 MW in Nebraska, completed in August 2002, built for the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN) (Lincoln, Nebraska) utilizing seven 1.5 MW NEG/Micon wind turbine/generators. The second was a 40.5 MW plant built in Hyde County near Highmore, South Dakota for FPL Energy, a subsidiary of FPL Group (NYSE: FPL)(North Palm Beach, Florida) utilizing twenty-seven 1.5 MW General Electric (GE) wind turbine/generators, and completed in October 2003.

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