Vestas Builds Ohio's First Utility Scale Windfarm

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Vestas American Wind Technology (Portland, Oregon), a division of Vestas Wind System A/S (Frankfort: VEWI.F) (Ringkobing, Denmark), is constructing Ohio's first utility scale Windfarm (PEC 10002865) in Wood County, Ohio near the city of Bowling Green for American Municipal Power-Ohio (AMP-Ohio) (Columbus, Ohio). The 3.6-megawatt (MW) windfarm's construction kicked-off August 29, 2003 and is required to be on-line by December 31, 2003 for a Co-operative of 86 communities.

AMP-Ohio will be the owner of the two 1.8 MW Vestas model V-80 wind turbine/generators. The units are each on a 257 foot tower with blades 132 feet long making the unit close to 400 feet high making it about as high as a 36 story building. The units operate at wind speeds of 8.9 to 55.9 miles per hour this operates the generator at 1,800 to 1,980 rpm producing about 690 volts @ 60 hz. The output will be hooked up to a Bowling Green 12.kV substation. Vestas is to build, maintain and operate the facility, Bowling Green Electric Department (Bowling Green, Ohio) has signed a power purchase agreement for the entire output and Green Mountain Energy Company (Austin, Texas) is to wheel the power. Participants in the project are hoping for a 2-month early completion and commissioning.

AMP-Ohio is a nonprofit association representing 80-member communities in Ohio, three (3) in Pennsylvania, two (2) in West Virginia and one (1) in Michigan. The organization supplies wholesale power and provides technical and other services to its members. AMP-Ohio owns and operates the Richard H. Gorsuch Generating Station, a 213-megawatt, coal-fired facility in Marietta, Ohio and as part of the OMEGA JV5 project; AMP-Ohio operates the Belleville Hydroelectric Plant, a 42-megawatt facility located on the Ohio River in Belleville, West Virginia.

Green Mountain Energy Company was founded in 1997. Green Mountain Energy sells electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, water, geothermal, biomass plus clean burning natural gas to residential, business, institutional and governmental customers. About 600,000 customers in California, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas have selected Green Mountain as their way to help the environment.

Bowling Green Electric Department provides transmission and distribution services to over 12,000 customers in and around Bowling Green, Portage and Tontogany.