MISO files revised interconnect deal for MidAmerican wind farm

July 5, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator on July 5 filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission an Amended and Restated Generator Interconnection Agreement with MidAmerican Energy as both the power project developer and interconnecting transmission owner.

This agreement is being amended a third time to change the manner in which the generating facility will provide reactive support. It is being filed with the commission because this change represents an amendment to the Second Revised LGIA, which was previously filed with and accepted by the commission.

The Rolling Hills wind facility’s Point of Interconnection is at the Rolling Hills Substation. This wind farm is located primarily in Cass County, Iowa. The queue position #R34 wind project of 250 MW in Cass County was expanded by projects R65 (92 MW) and J191 (101.2 MW) for a total combined capacity of 443.2 MW.

The R65 project expansion consists of 40 Siemens SWT 2.3-101 wind turbines, for a total R65 capacity of 92 MW. The J191 project expansion consists of 44 Siemens SWT 2.3-101 wind turbines, for a total J191 capacity of 101.2 MW. Both expansions had commercial operation target dates in 2011.

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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.