Tri-State to use wind farm on eastern Colorado plains

clipped from www.worldofrenewables.com Duke Energy Corp. is set to build a $100 million wind farm on the eastern Colorado plains and sell the power to Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc., the companies announced Monday The 20-year power contract marks the first project in Colorado for Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke and the first wind power for Tri- State. "This is a small step in the right direction," Ken Anderson, Tri-State's general manager, said at a news conference on the statehouse steps. Tri-State, based in Westminster, supplies wholesale power to 44 electric cooperatives in four states, including 18 in Colorado. The project — 34 turbines on 6,000 acres northeast of Burlington generating 51 megawatts — will be the eighth wind farm in Colorado providing power to utilities. The cost of the Kit Carson Windpower Project is "north of $100 million," said Wouter Van Kempen, president of Duke Energy Generation Services.