Puget Sound Energy's second wind project completed
5 January 2007 -- Puget Sound Energy (PSE), the wholly owned utility subsidiary of Puget Energy, rang in the new year by bringing online Washington state's largest utility-owned wind-power facility.
The utility's 229-MW Wild Horse Wind Project in Kittitas County began commercial operation for PSE customers in late December. PSE has also built the 150-MW capacity Hopkins Ridge Wind Project in 2005 near Dayton in southeast Washington.
Wild Horse has 127 turbines manufactured by Vestas, who also supplied the turbines for the Hopkins Ridge project.
PSE's near-term plans call for building the Pacific Northwest's largest solar-powered generating facility at the Wild Horse site. At 500 kilowatts, the pilot solar project would nearly double Washington state's entire solar-powered electricity generation and be four times larger than the biggest individual solar facility now operating in the Northwest.
In November PSE issued a request for proposals for the design and development of the solar project, which will sit on about eight acres of PSE-owned land on the 9,000-acre Wild Horse site. If the solar project meets its goal, it will be generating electricity by late 2007, sending its power output along with Wild Horse's wind-generated power through the PSE transmission system to serve customers.
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