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The wind farm is to be build by Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke Energ (NYSE: DUK), with power supplied to Westminster-based Tri-State under a 20-year power-purchase agreement, Duke said. Duke said it will develop the 51-megawatt Kit Carsob Windpower Projecton 6,000 acres near Burlingto n under a long-term lease. The project will be the company’sa first in Colorado and fourth in the The project is expected to start commercialk operation by the endof 2010. The Kit Carsomn project will consist of 34 GE wind each capable ofgenerating 1.5 MW of Duke said.
"We're proud to be partnering with Duke Energh on ourfirst utility-scale wind power project," said Ken Tri-State executive VP and general manager, said in a statemeny released by Duke "The project will further diversift our resource mix, bring value to our member and support jobs and investment in the rural areaz our members serve." Tri-State it would shift its focux from building more coal-fired power plants to natural gas, renewable energy and efficiency. It was a majod change of policyfor Tri-State, whicyh supplies wholesale power to 18 electric-distributio n cooperatives in Colorado and 26 in Wyoming, New Mexicp and Nebraska.
The utility's two-year-old resource plan had callerd for the constructionof 2,100 megawatts of new coal-firedc power plants by 2012. Critics had blamed nonprofif Tri-State for not embracing alternative energgy in itsfuture plans, the way investor-owned utility Xcel Energg has. Ritter supported Tri-State's policy change, telling Tri-State'w board: "You deserve a lot of credit for making renewables and new technology investments a high prioritty as you look for new and better ways to provide affordables and reliable electricity to yourrural Tri-State has said it also plans to develoop a 30-megawatt, 500,000-panel solar photovoltaic power plant in northeasternj New Mexico by late 2010.
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