US developer Apex Clean Energy has sold its 303MW Diamond Spring wind farm in Oklahoma to Allete Clean Energy.
Construction of the project will start this year and commercial operations are scheduled for 2020.
Two 15-year PPAs for power totalling 228MW are included in the deal. The off-takes, with two unnamed Fotune 500 companies, will be announced at a later date.
Diamond Spring, which is located in Johnston and Pontotoc counties, will be Allete’s largest wind farm and brings it total portfolio to over 1GW.
“Serving the corporate and industrial market opens new opportunities for Allete Clean Energy,” said the company’s president Allan Rudeck.
“The southern Oklahoma location is strategic in that it provides a new beach-head in the highly attractive Southwest Power Pool where significant potential exists for serving new customers in the utility and corporate and industrial segments. We are pleased to be working with Apex Clean Energy to bring Diamond Spring to market.”