Interconnect filed for 250-MW Hidalgo Wind project in Texas

September 30, 2015 Barry Cassell Generation

Electric Transmission Texas LLC filed on Sept. 28 at the Public Utility Commission of Texas an ERCOT Standard Generation Interconnection Agreement, dated July 17, with Hidalgo Wind Farm LLC for a 250-MW project.

Hidalgo Wind Farm’s Los Mirasoles Substation will be located in Hidalgo County approximately 3.5 miles west of McCook, Texas. Once the Permanent Facilities are completed and energized, the permanent Point of Interconnection will be located at the dead-end structure inside ETT’s Pomelo 345-kV Station that terminates the project developer’s 345-kV transmission line from the Substation.

This project has a nominal capacity of 250 MW, and is comprised of 125 Vestas V110 2-MW turbines. No specific commercial operation date for the project is given in the LGIA.

Project contact information in the LGIA is: Hidalgo Wind Farm LLC, Attn: EVP-Central Region, 808 Travis Street, Suite 700, Houston, TX 77002, Phone: 713-265-0350, steve.irvin@edpr.com. That is contact information for EDP Renewables.

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Barry Cassell is Chief Analyst for GenerationHub covering coal and emission controls issues, projects and policy. He has covered the coal and power generation industry for more than 24 years, beginning in November 2011 at GenerationHub and prior to that as editor of SNL Energy’s Coal Report. He was formerly with Coal Outlook for 15 years as the publication’s editor and contributing writer, and prior to that he was editor of Coal & Synfuels Technology and associate editor of The Energy Report. He has a bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University.