The Southwest Power Pool on Dec. 4 filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission an executed Generator Interconnection Agreement (GIA) with Prairie Breeze Wind Energy III LLC and interconnecting transmission owner Nebraska Public Power District for a 35.8-MW wind project.
Prairie Breeze plans to construct a 35.8-MW wind farm, consisting of of 20 General Electric 1.7-100 XLE 1.79 MW wind turbine generators. The point of interconnection will be the 230-kV bus at NPPD’s Meadow Grove substation located in Madison County, Nebraska.
The targeted commercial operation date in the GIA is April 1, 2016, though the parties agreed to make reasonable efforts to improve on this date to allow for an earlier limited operation interconnection.
The project contact information in the GIA is for Invenergy LLC out of its office in Chicago.
FERC on Sept. 10 had accepted a July 15 application from Prairie Breeze Wind Energy III for authorization to make market-based wholesale sales of energy, capacity, and ancillary services out of this project. The project is estimated to possibly begin generating test power in the fourth quarter of 2015. Concurrently with the filing of the market rate application, Prairie Breeze III also filed with the commission on July 15 a notice of self-certification as an exempt wholesale generator.
