With Colbeck's Corner, E.ON is putting a new industrial-scale onshore wind farm into operation in the USA. The project, located east of Amarillo, Texas, rates an installed capacity of 200 MW from its 112 turbines.
Named in honour of Doug Colbeck, an E.ON employee and wind park developer who passed away after a long illness, this is the 20th wind farm that E.ON has put into operation in the US. Altogether throughout North America the company has built wind projects with a volume of 3 GW and is one of the primary operators of onshore wind farms in the USA.
E.ON says that this is project will show a radical reduction the cost of onshore wind power. The budget for Colbeck's Corner is 40 % below the investment in the Pyron wind farm, built by E.ON in 2009. In its present form, says E.ON, generating electricity from wind allows the company to offer customers in the US market an attractive product. Digital Reality, a global provider of data centres, has signed a long-term contract securing a supply of 400 000 MWh annually from the Colbeck's Corner wind farm.
