{"id":16822,"date":"2013-10-11T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=16822"},"modified":"2013-10-11T13:51:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T18:51:57","slug":"public-service-company-of-oklahoma-makes-big-move-toward-wind-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/10\/11\/public-service-company-of-oklahoma-makes-big-move-toward-wind-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Wind Farm Projects Planned for Oklahoma Panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16831\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"A wind farm near Weatherford, Okla. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/10\/TurbinePic.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16831\" alt=\"A wind farm near Weatherford, Okla. \" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/10\/TurbinePic-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Travel Aficionado \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wind farm near Weatherford, Okla.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Public Service Company of Oklahoma, one of the state&#8217;s largest utilities, says it has agreed to decades long contracts for power from new wind farm projects in northwest Oklahoma.<\/p><p>A statement released by PSO&#8217;s president and chief operating officer \u2014 <a title=\"JournalRecordLink\" href=\"http:\/\/journalrecord.com\/2013\/10\/10\/pso-makes-pacts-for-wind-energy-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\">and reported on<\/a> by\u00a0<em>The<\/em><em>\u00a0Journal Record<\/em>&#8216;s D. Ray Tuttle \u2014 says the &#8220;purchase agreements add a significant amount of Oklahoma wind energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the latest contracts start in 2016, PSO&#8217;s total wind under contract will total 1,137 MW. The new agreements include:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>199.8 MW from Balko Wind LLC, owned by Apex Clean Energy Holdings LLC. The project is in Beaver County, in the Oklahoma panhandle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>198.9 MW from Seiling Wind LLC, which is owned by NextEra Energy Resources LLC. The wind farm is in Dewey County in northwestern Oklahoma.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>200 MW from the Goodwell Wind Project LLC, which is owned by TradeWind Energy and is in Texas County in the panhandle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><!--more-->And as\u00a0<em>The Oklahoman&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em><a title=\"OklahomanLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oklahoman.com\/article\/3892080?embargo=1\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Monies reports<\/a>, these wind farms will be new. Right now, there&#8217;s just one large-scale wind farm in the panhandle. By 2015, there will be three:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TradeWind said its Goodwell wind farm will be constructed on 20,000 acres in Texas County and involve about 30 landowners. The company&#8217;s 20-year agreement with PSO will provide enough electricity to power 60,000 homes.<\/p><p>&#8230;Apex said its Balko wind farm in the southwestern part of Beaver County will sell 200 megawatts of its planned 300-megawatt capacity to PSO.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the state&#8217;s largest utilities says it has agreed to decades long contracts for power from new wind farm projects in northwest Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":16831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,491],"tags":[536,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16822"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16844,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16822\/revisions\/16844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}