Paul Turner, CEO of Nacel Energy, said: “On July 28, 2009 we announced our Snowflake wind power project, stating we would complete the engineering and gather the technical documentation required for our interconnection to APS, in a period of months.
“This important step in the development of Snowflake has been achieved. In addition, we are also able to advise shareholders and other interested parties that the size of the Snowflake project has been increased from 10MW to 20MW.”
Nacel Energy now has six active requests for the interconnection of 130MW of new wind energy generation facilities to the nation’s electric grid.
In addition to 20MW at Snowflake, the company’s 30MW Blue Creek project in Moore County, Texas is now before Southwestern Public Service (a subsidiary of XCEL Energy), the 20MW Channing Flats, also in Moore County, is before Southwest Power Pool, the 20MW Swisher and 10MW Hedley Pointe projects, both in Donley County, Texas, are before Golden Spread Electric Cooperative (as agent for Swisher Electric Cooperative) and the 20MW Leila Lake project, also in Donley County, is before Southwest Power Pool.
The company anticipates a period of several months, or longer, before a final interconnection agreement is executed at Snowflake. In the interim, other important milestones are also underway including, without limitation, obtaining turbine debt financing and a power purchase agreement. Accordingly, the company cautions that commissioning (operations) at Snowflake is not expected until the fourth quarter 2010, or later depending on future events.
