With this facility, the company has nearly 1,000MW of wind power generation capacity in operation at nine US wind farms.
All of the output from the Kit Carson site will serve customers of Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s member electric cooperatives and public power districts through a 20-year power purchase agreement.
The Kit Carson wind farm consists of 34 units of GE turbines with a generating capacity of 1.5MW each.
Construction of the 6,000-acre wind farm began earlier this year, and it is the second commercial wind project Duke Energy brought on line in 2010.
The company’s 110-turbine, 200MW Top of the World Windpower Project near Casper, Wyoming, reached commercial operation in October.
