Florida-based utility Gulf Power wants to increase the amount of electricity it buys from the 298MW Kingfisher wind farm in central Oklahoma.
Gulf has petitioned the Florida Public Service Commission to approve an energy purchase agreement for 94MW.
The utility already has a 20-year contract for 178MW of the output with power hedge provider Morgan Stanley Capital Group.
The wind farm is located in Kingfisher and Canadian counties and started commercial operation in January.
Kingfisher comprises 149 Vestas V100 2MW turbines. With the latest agreement 136 of the turbines have now been designated for Gulf.
The remaining 13 turbines have been held in reserve by Morgan Stanley as a source of renewable energy certificates in the event that the units designated for Gulf do not produce sufficient RECs to meet Morgan Stanley’s contractual REC delivery requirements, according to a regulatory filing.
Thus, when combined, the two energy purchase agreements essentially designate the entire facility’s environmental attribute production for Gulf Power.
US investment outfit First Reserve bought Kingfisher from developer Apex Clean Energy in early 2015. Apex oversaw construction and operates the $452m wind farm.
Image: Kingfisher under construction (Apex Clean Energy)
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By EBS