FERC accepts interconnect for MidAmerican’s 340-MW Beaver Creek wind project

December 21, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

FERC on Dec. 21 accepted an Oct. 31 filing by the Midcontinent ISO of a Generator Interconnection Agreement with MidAmerican Energy as both the wind project developer and interconnecting transmission owner.

MISO has designated this as Project No. J498 in its interconnection queue. The commercial operation target date is Dec. 15, 2017. The Point of Interconnection (POI) will be at MidAmerican’s 345 kV Beaver Creek Substation. The project site is located northwest of Ogden in Boone County, Iowa.

Under this GIA, MidAmerican will install a 340-MW net facility composed of one hundred seventy Vestas V110 2-MW wind turbines. There will be two groups, each with eighty five turbines, with each half having their own generator step up transformer. A map in the GIA refers to it as the Beaver Creek project.

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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.
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