Financing has closed on Apex Clean Energy‘s 224-MW Great Pathfinder Wind project following a tax equity commitment from Bank of America. Great Pathfinder Wind, located in Boone and Hamilton Counties, Iowa, is currently under construction and is expected to begin operations in Q4 2022. Apex is providing construction management services for the project and IEA…
Apex Clean Energy begins developing North Dakota’s largest wind project
Minnesota electric cooperative Great River Energy has reached an agreement with Apex Clean Energy to receive renewable energy from a 400-MW wind energy project in McLean County, North Dakota. The Discovery Wind project, expected to reach commercial operations in 2025, will be the single largest wind project in North Dakota and will deliver renewable energy…
DTE Energy takes ownership of 455 MW of new wind farms in Michigan
DTE Energy took over the operation of three new wind parks, two of which are now the largest in Michigan. Located in Isabella County, the Isabella I and Isabella II wind parks have a total of 136 turbines with a capacity of 383 MW. The third park, Fairbanks Wind, is located in the Upper Peninsula’s…
IEA handling construction on 190-MW Kansas wind farm project
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, has been awarded the Jayhawk Wind Farm contract for the construction of a 190-MW utility-scale wind farm in Bourbon and Crawford counties in Kansas. Apex Clean Energy, which develops, constructs and operates utility-scale wind and solar power facilities across North…
Apex Clean Energy selling 500-MW White Mesa Wind project
Apex Clean Energy announced the sale of White Mesa Wind, located in Crockett County, Texas, to an unnamed buyer. When complete, the 500-MW White Mesa project will be the third-largest single-phase, single-site wind farm in the United States, following the largest — the 525-MW Aviator Wind, also developed by Apex and located in West Texas.…
Facebook signs 170-MW PPA on under-construction Illinois wind project
Apex Clean Energy announced that Lincoln Land Wind has executed a power purchase agreement with Facebook for approximately 170 MW of renewable power from the Illinois project. With this latest in a series of transactions, Facebook is now Apex’s largest corporate customer by megawatt. Lincoln Land Wind will help Facebook meet its goal of supporting…
State of Virginia signs PPA for full output of 75-MW wind project
Governor Ralph Northam and Apex Clean Energy announced that the state of Virginia has entered into a power purchase agreement for the output of the approximately 75-MW Rocky Forge Wind project, located in Botetourt County. The agreement represents the purchase of the full capacity of the project, which will become Virginia’s first operating onshore wind…
Apex chooses Power Factors to manage renewable assets
Apex Clean Energy, Inc. has selected Power Factors to provide the technical asset management platform for its renewable projects. “Our goal is to partner with industry leaders that are pushing technology limits to ensure we deliver the very best renewables system of engagement to drive down LCOE,” said Gary Meyers, president of Power Factors.…
Indiana’s NIPSCO to buy power from 300-MW Apex wind project
Apex Clean Energy says it has agreed to a power purchase agreement with Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) for 300 MW of wind power. The 20-year deal represents the full capacity of Apex’s Roaming Bison Wind project, located in Montgomery County, Indiana. “Making the transition to renewable energy is critical to our long-term plan…
Apex Clean Energy sells 202-MW Sugar Creek Wind project
Apex Clean Energy announced the sale of Sugar Creek Wind to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. The advanced-stage 202-MW project is located in Logan County in central Illinois. This fall, Apex secured a long-term contract with the Illinois Power Agency to provide renewable energy certificates to utilities in the state. “Sugar…
ENGIE acquires a 151-MW South Dakota wind farm
Apex Clean Energy today announced a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Xcel Energy for Dakota Range Wind III and the sale of the wind project to an affiliate of ENGIE North America. This represents Apex’s second major transaction with Xcel Energy and its first with ENGIE. “Energy trends—including the falling cost of renewables and increased…
Ohio sets public hearing date for proposed Republic Wind Farm
The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) will hold a hearing for the public to express views about Apex Clean Energy‘s Republic Wind’s proposal to construct a wind-powered electric generation facility in parts of Seneca and Sandusky counties. The proposed Republic Wind Farm would be situated across approximately 24,000 acres of leased private land in Adams, Pleasant,…
Apex sells Upland Prairie Wind project to Alliant Energy Corporation subsidiary
Apex Clean Energy announced the sale of the Upland Prairie Wind project to Interstate Power and Light Company, an Alliant Energy Corporation subsidiary. The 300-MW project is sited on approximately 30,000 acres in the northwest Iowa counties of Clay and Dickinson. Following completion by Apex of all development work, the project will be constructed and…
What drives corporate buyers to choose renewable energy?
Apex Clean Energy, in partnership with GreenBiz Group, released a new report highlighting the current drivers and barriers to the corporate and industrial procurement of renewable energy. The research, conducted in August, shows that while the continually improving economics of utility-scale wind and solar are helping convert corporate commitments into a decision to buy, companies…
Apex’s Rocky Forge Wind project wins unanimous approval in Virginia
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has approved Rocky Forge Wind’s “Permit by Rule” (PBR) application, a wind project being developed by Apex Clean Energy in Botetourt County, Virginia. This marks the first PBR approval for a wind-power project in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The PBR approval process required more than two years of…
Avery Dennison signs PPA with Apex Clean Energy for Texas wind power
Global labeling and packaging materials manufacturer Avery Dennison Corporation has signed a wind-power purchase agreement (PPA) with Apex Clean Energy to offset 50% of the company’s U.S.-based greenhouse gas emissions derived from electricity consumption. Under the terms, Avery Dennison will purchase 20 MW of renewable energy capacity from Apex’s Perryton Wind, a 299.91-MW wind energy project to…
Apex Clean Energy wins Texas’ Novus IV wind energy project
Apex Clean Energy has acquired the Novus IV wind energy project from Novus Windpower, LLC, headquartered in Guymon, Oklahoma. The project, located in Hansford County and Sherman County, Texas, in the north Texas Panhandle, has the potential to bring 360 MW of wind energy into the Southwest Power Pool market. It is expected to begin…
Apex acquires second wind farm in Illinois
Apex Clean Energy has acquired a second project from American Wind Energy Management (AWEM). Sangamon Wind One is located in western Sangamon County, Illinois, and has the potential to support 130 MW of wind energy. “We’re pleased to be working with AWEM to bring another high-quality project to completion,” said Mark Goodwin, President of Apex.…
Apex and MP2 Energy partner to provide renewable power to Fort Hood
Houston-based power company, MP2 Energy, has been chosen to partner with Apex Clean Energy to supply renewable energy and traditional electricity to Fort Hood, a 340-square-mile base outside of Killeen, Texas. The region currently serves 218,000 military and family. The U.S. Army signed a power purchase agreement with Apex for a hybrid wind and solar energy…
Apex completes sale of renewables’ portfolio to Northleaf Capital
Apex Clean Energy announced the sale of a majority ownership stake in a 217-MW renewable energy portfolio to Northleaf Capital Partners, an independent global private markets manager with more than $7 billion in infrastructure and private equity commitments under management. The portfolio consists of the 50.4-MW Cotton Plains Wind and 151.2-MW Old Settler Wind facilities…