Orsted has completed the 298MW Haystack onshore wind farm in the US state of Nebraska.
The project is Orsted’s first onshore project using 5MW Siemens Gamesa turbines and brings the company’s US onshore wind and solar capacity in operation to over 3GW.
Haystack is located in Wayne County, and utilises existing interconnection infrastructure in Southwest Power Pool (SPP) North from Orsted’s 230MW Plum Creek wind farm.
The new wind farm is Orsted’s second operating project in Nebraska and its third operating project in the SPP market.
Haystack has power purchase agreements to supply Hormel Foods, Target and PepsiCo.
Orsted onshore chief executive Neil O’Donovan said: “I’m proud that the team has been able to issue commercial operation to all three Haystack Wind off-takers on time despite industry-wide supply chain delays.
“The SPP market is important to our Onshore business, and now we have a total capacity of 631MW in operation across Willow Creek, Plum Creek, and Haystack. That’s enough to power almost 200,000 US homes.”