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Facility
Weatherford Wind Energy Center

Project Location
Custer County, Oklahoma

Commercial On-line Date (COD)
April 2005

Total Capacity
147 Megawatts

Annual Energy Production
440, 000 Megawatt Hours

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North Dakota 1 Wind Enery Center

Project Site:

  • The Weatherford Wind Energy Center calls for 71 wind turbines on a 3,800-acre site just west of the city of Weatherford.
  • The facility is Oklahoma's third major wind farm, and its largest.

Turbines:

  • The facility is owned and operated by FPL Energy. PSO purchases all of the output from the facility under a long-term contract and provides the power to its customers throughout its service territory.
  • The Weatherford facility features 71 turbines, each with a capacity of 1.5 MW.
  • The expansion will add 27 turbines located on 1,400 acres southet of the original project site. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2005.

Output:

  • This facility will be capable of generating enough electricity to power more than 44,000 homes.
  • All the power will be sold to American Electric Power-Public Service Company of Oklahoma under a 20-year contract. AEP PSO is the state's second-largest electric utility, serving 505,000 customers, including 285,000 in the Tulsa area.