Southwest Power Pool files interconnect for NextEra’s 160-MW Sholes Wind project

December 20, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

The Southwest Power Pool on Dec. 20 filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission an executed Generator Interconnection Agreement with Sholes Wind Energy LLC and interconnecting transmission owner Nebraska Public Power District.

Sholes Wind Energy plans to construct a 160-MW facility, consisting of 80 General Electric 2.0 MW wind turbine generators. The Sholes GIA provides for the interconnection of the facility to NPPD’s transmission system. The point of interconnection will be the 345 kV bus at NPPD’s Hoskins Substation, which is located near Hoskins, Nebraska.

The targeted commercial operation date under the GIA is Dec. 31, 2019.

A listed project contact is: John DiDonato, Vice President, Sholes Wind Energy LLC c/o NextEra Energy Resources LLC, 700 Universe Boulevard, Juno Beach, FL 33408, telephone (561) 691-7232, john.didonato@nexteraenergy.com.

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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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