Canadian energy company Capital Power has kicked off construction of the 178MW Bloom wind project in Kansas in the US.
Minnesota outfit Fagen Inc was selected as the engineering, procurement and construction management contractor for the balance of plant work, Capital spokesman Michael Sheehan told reNEWS.
“There are approximately 80 people working on site involved in construction of access roads and excavation of turbine foundations,” said Sheehan.
Capital expects road and foundation work to wrap up by the end of 2016. The installation of the collection system will start in mid-October and is set to be complete in the second quarter of 2017.
Vestas is to start deliveries in January 2017 of 54 V117 3.3MW turbines featuring 91.5m hub heights, with erection planned from January to June.
The site, located on 15,000 acres of privately-owned land in Ford and Clark counties, has average wind speeds of over nine metres/second at 80 metres height.
Bloom has a 10-year fixed price contract with Allianz Risk Transfer. The C$358m wind farm will interconnect to the 345kV Clark County substation where it will be transmitted by ITC Great Plains.
Construction is on schedule with commercial operations on track to begin in the third quarter of 2017, said Sheehan.
Capital bought the project from Norvento USA, a subsidiary of Spain’s Norvento Enerxia, in 2014.
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