US developer Apex Clean Energy has taken over the 102MW Galloo Island wind project in New York from Hudson Energy Development.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Hudson proposed to build 31 turbines on the upstate New York site.
The 2000-acre Galloo Island comprises mostly vacant land and is located in Lake Ontario, six miles from the mainland in the Town of Hounsfield, Jefferson County.
Initial proponent Upstate NY Power Corp, a Pattern Energy subsidiary, had received state approval for an 84-turbine 254MW project.
However, its transmission line application was cancelled in 2013 and the project was shelved.
The scaled down project is planned to tie into to the state power grid via a 150kV underwater cable. An interconnection request has been submitted.
The more than $200m project will inject about $35m into the local communities through taxes, jobs and spending, said Apex. Project construction is not anticipated before 2018.
The new owner plans to continue the Article 10 state permitting process and will host a public open house 12 January.
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