Enel Initiate The Largest Wind Farm in U.S.
02 October, 2008
The Italian energy company Enel SpA has opened the largest wind project in the United States. Wind farm turbines have a capacity of 250 megawatts, being the largest ever built by Enel and the largest in Kansas, company representatives announced.
Smoky Hills wind farm from the Kansas state will be operational by the end of this year. The project requires an investment of 7.4 billion euros until 2012.
The project consists of 56 Vestas turbines and 99 GE turbines, each with a height of 80 meters and a diameter of 80 meters.
The project can provide the energy needed for 85,000 housing units from the U.S. and avoid the issue in the atmosphere of 750,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, and consumption of 175,000 metric tonnes of oil. The energy generated by wind turbines will be delivered to five local power utilities.
GE Financial Services, a General Electric Co. division, is also an investor in this project.
