Invenergy Announces Start Of Commercial Operation Of Prairie Breeze Wind Energy Center

The project is located on private affirm in Antelope, Boone, and Madison Counties, declare 100 miles northwest of the city of Lincoln. Prairie Breeze consists of 118 GE 1.7 MW wind turbines, together with output purchased by the Omaha Native Firmness Population ("OPPD") beneath permanent unanimity.

"Prairie Breeze is Invenergy's in advance wind farm in Nebraska, a claim which offers one of the nation's past performance wind resources," thought Jim Barrier, Prime Intricate Officer at Invenergy. "We're snobbish to invest in Nebraska and in the financial nominate of the project field. Invenergy appreciates the vituperative sustain for this project, and we are hold back to sustaining a hunger and prolific imitate together with our assembly citizens."

"The casing of renewable energy is an earth-shattering one to the stakeholders of OPPD, same as we aerate to the nominate. OPPD armor willingly hold back to escape practical, lovely and environmentally sympathetic armed to our clientele," thought OPPD Defenselessness Beginning of Custom Exhaust Sherrye Hutcherson. "We desire accommodate to assess opportunities, being Prairie Breeze, somewhere it makes serious ache to clarify our renewable energy portfolio."

"OPPD speedily hold back to produce 10 percent renewable energy for retail sales by 2020. Between this project, we desire more willingly than better that goal," additional Dean Mueller, Department Superintendent of Sustainability and Conservational Stewardship for OPPD. "In precision, by 2017, OPPD desire maintain a renewable energy portfolio of 30 percent. You can single-handedly maintain that elegance of upgrade at whatever time you maintain resolute projects."

Community financial benefits from Prairie Breeze top tax costs, obtain costs to landowners, and male salaries. Senior than 230 well-behaved workforce constructed the wind farm, together with Blattner Close ration as collective contractor. A full-time male of thirteen now operates and maintains the power.

Invenergy and its contemporaneous companies emerge, own and exhibit large-scale renewable and other clean energy generation services in North America and Europe. Invenergy is hold back to clean power alternatives and continued move forward in electricity generation. Invenergy's home limb is located in Chicago and it has restricted move on offices in the neighborhood the Joined States, and in Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Europe.

Invenergy has built-up exceptional than 8,000 MW of clean energy projects that are in operation, in creation, or beneath pledge, by 65 wind, solar, and natural gas power services.

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