US developer Invenergy aims to start construction in 2018 on a 300MW wind farm in the northeast corner of New York State near the border with Canada.
The Bull Run project in Clinton County will employ 50 to 100 turbines, Invenergy said this month at a public open house in the town of Ellenburg.
A layout based on 94 3.2MW turbines would pay about $5m a year in lease payments, taxes and operation and maintenance salaries, said the proponent.
The Chicago-based developer has 18,000 acres under lease and installed two meteorological towers in June 2015. Field studies are underway, including bird and bat investigations, aerial surveys and cultural resources studies.
Invenergy expects to submit an Article 10 preliminary scoping statement in March and an application for a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need in December 2016. A siting board decision is expected in summer 2017.
Invenergy aims to wrap up transmission studies in January 2018 and start construction in May of that year.
Image: Montana wind farm (Invenergy)
