Wind Power Begins To Flow For Kansas City Power & Light
Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L), a subsidiary of Great Plains Energy, announced its Spearville Wind Energy Facility is fully operational. The site's 67 wind turbines are capable of producing 100.5 megawatts of electricity. That is enough clean, renewable electricity to serve the annual energy needs of approximately 33,000 homes. "Putting these wind turbines on the power grid is an important milestone in our comprehensive plan to meet the growing energy needs of the Kansas City area," said Kansas City Power & Light CEO Bill Downey. "This wind facility, combined with several innovative demand response and energy efficiency programs and investments in technologies to substantially reduce air emissions at existing power plants, and a new power plant near Weston, Mo., is part of our balanced approach to power generation that will provide significant environmental and economic benefits."

World’s Largest Wind Farm Will Eventually Top 700 Megawatts
FPL Energy says that as of the end of August it had completed 662 megawatts of the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Texas making it the largest wind farm in the world. When the last phase of the project is complete later this month, the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center will have a total capacity of 735 megawatts. The Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center is comprised of 291 GE 1.5 megawatt wind turbines and 130 Siemens 2.3 megawatt wind turbines spread over nearly 47,000 acres in Taylor and Nolan County, Texas. The first phase of the project consisting of 213 megawatts was completed in late 2005; phase two consisting of 223.5 megawatts was completed in the second quarter of 2006; and, phase three consisting of 299 megawatts, of which 225 megawatts are already operational, is expected to be completed by the end of September. Once Horse Hollow is complete, FPL Energy will operate more than 1,600 megawatts of wind in Texas alone.