Atlantic Wind LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Avangrid Renewables LLC, said in a May 6 letter to the New York State Public Service Commission that it will be seeking a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need on the Deer River Wind Farm Project.
This is a 100-MW wind energy facility to be located in the Towns of Pinckney, Harrisburg, and Montague in Lewis County, N.Y., with electrical transmission interconnection proposed in the Town of Rodman, Jefferson County. A prospective certificate applicant is required to submit a proposed Public Involvement Program (PIP) plan for review by the Department of Public Service (DPS) staff at least 150 days prior to the filing of a Preliminary Scoping Statement. The proposed PIP was filed with the May 6 letter.
Avangrid Renewables is one of the largest producers of wind energy in the U.S. It is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and has more than $10 billion of operating assets totaling more than 6,000 MW of owned and controlled wind and solar generation in the United States.
The proposed Deer River project consists of the construction and operation of a commercial-scale wind power project, including the installation and operation of up to 40 wind turbines, together with the associated collection lines (below grade and overhead), access roads, meteorological towers, and operation and maintenance (O&M) building.
To deliver electricity to the New York State power grid, the applicant proposes to construct a collection substation adjacent to a National Grid interconnection switching station which will interconnect with National Grid’s Lighthouse Hill-to-Black River 115-kV transmission line. It is anticipated that a 34.5 kV collection line will extend approximately six miles from the collection substation to the generation site.
The Deer River Wind Farm Project will have a nameplate capacity of 100 MW, and is expected to operate at an annual net capacity factor (NCF) of approximately 32%. This means that over the course of a full calendar year the project would produce up to 280,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of energy (i.e., 100 MW x 24 hrs/day x 365 days x 32%).
A project contact is: Atlantic Wind LLC, 2 Radnor Corp. Ctr., Ste. 200, 100 Matsonford Road, Radnor, PA 19087, Jenny L. Briot, Phone (315) 399-0486, DeerRiverWind@avangrid.com.
