By Bruce Henderson
bhenderson@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Monday, Jul. 06, 2009
Duke Energy will build a new wind farm in Colorado, the company said today as it closed on its acquisition of a wind project in Pennsylvania.
Duke will develop the 51-megawatt Kit Carson Windpower Project on 6,000 acres near Burlington, Colo. The power will supply 44 electric cooperatives under a 20-year purchase agreement with the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association.
The 34 wind turbines will begin spinning in late 2010. It will be Duke’s first wind project in Colorado, but the company has three farms operating or under construction in Wyoming.
Duke closed today on its first wind project in the East, the 70-megawatt North Allegheny Windpower Project 95 miles east of Pittsburgh. Duke bought the project, to start operating later this year, from turbine maker and developer Gamesa Energy USA.
Duke has more than 500 megawatts of wind generation in operation, and another 5,000 megawatts in potential development projects
