The massive 400 MW Cimarron Bend wind project in Clark County, Kansas will be Enel Green Power’s largest wind farm built so far..
The $610million project will have the largest capacity of any Enel wind asset in the company’s global portfolio.
Cimarron Bend will produce 1.8 TWh annually providing enough energy to power the equivalent of more than 149,000 US households and cut 1.3 million tons of CO2 emissions each year.
The power and renewable energy credits from Cimarron Bend will be sold under two bundled, long-term power purchase agreements; one with Google and the other with the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU). Cimarron Bend is the first of EGP-NA’s wind projects to sell a portion of the power produced to a corporate off-taker.
Enel already owns and operates four wind projects in Kansas and is the largest owner and operator of wind in the state. It now owns projects representing more than 1 GW of renewable energy that required more than $1.7 billion in overall investment.
“This project represents a $610 million investment in Kansas and solidifies our reputation as a leader in energy development,” said Brownback. “The Cimarron Bend project will be one of the largest wind sites in Kansas, creating jobs and opportunity in Clark County and across the state.”
“We are excited about this project on numerous fronts. Cimarron Bend will provide the lowest cost energy of any resource within our portfolio, it adds a great deal of price certainty to our energy needs, and it will provide our customers with some of the greenest energy anywhere in the country,” said Don Gray, general manager of the Kansas City board of public utilities.
