WHITE HILLS – Scores of turbines have been erected where a utility-scale wind farm is expected to begin producing power before the end of the year near the rural town of White Hills, about 40 miles north of Kingman. Next Era Energy spokeswoman Lisa Paul said the 350-megawatt wind farm will begin generating electricity sometime in Dec.
Paul said more than half of the 126 turbines had been assembled and positioned by early Oct. where the project is being developed on more than 24,000-acres of public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. About 300 people are involved in construction of the system that will require no more than six people to operate.
Most of the electricity from the White Hills Wind project is being sold to the Clean Power Alliance (CPA), a retail provider operating in Southern California. CPA and Next Era have a 20-year contract involving 300 megawatts of power.
BP Wind Energy first announced the project 19 years ago. Orion Energy eventually acquired the project before Florida-based Next Era took over a few years ago.
Removal of sensitive vegetation marked initial site preparation last fall. The uprights and blades for the turbines have been seen passing through Kingman on Interstate 40 before being transported north on U.S. 93.
Dave Hawkins
Well how nice that a big corporate oligarch, get’s PUBLIC land ( IN AZ ) to erect these turbines, produce energy to mostly be sold to a retailer ( BIG PROFITS ME THINKS) in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, and BP wind ( maybe a sister to BPoil ) and in the end it will give six people a job to run it. They never stop stealing as much revenue as possible, and anything with an ALLIANCE in its name is funding something sinister…my opinion only