Avangrid Renewables has achieved commercial operation at its 200-MW Golden Hills wind farm in Sherman County, Oregon. The facility, which provides enough renewable electricity to Puget Sound Energy (PSE) to power over 60,000 homes annually, began operations on April 29, 2022. The project supports PSE’s carbon dioxide emission reduction goals while providing additional capacity to…
Avangrid Renewables’ 1,232-MW offshore wind project selected for procurement in Massachusetts
Avangrid Renewables‘ joint venture offshore wind project, Commonwealth Wind, has been selected as part of Massachusetts’ third offshore wind competitive procurement process. The 1,232-MW project is New England’s largest offshore wind project to date and will create 11,000 full-time equivalent jobs over its lifetime and generate enough energy to power 750,000 homes annually. “Commonwealth Wind…
Avangrid Renewables restructures offshore wind plan with European development partner
Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) plan to restructure their offshore wind development joint venture, Vineyard Wind. The Vineyard wind portfolio includes the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in U.S. waters, Vineyard Wind 1, an 800-megawatt (MW) project that will deliver clean energy to Massachusetts beginning in 2023. The project was financed last week…
Kitty Hawk Offshore Wind project begins environmental impact study
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) gave the approval to prepare an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for Kitty Hawk North, the first offshore project within the company’s Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Area (WEA). “Kitty Hawk can transform the energy mix of Virginia and North Carolina while delivering a triple-win for the environment, coastal…
155-MW Tatanka Ridge Wind Farm providing power to South Dakota electric cooperative customers
Avangrid Renewables completed commissioning of the 154.8-MW Tatanka Ridge Wind Farm on January 5, 2021. The facility’s 56 wind turbines are located in Deuel County, South Dakota, northeast of Brookings. The facility is owned by Tatanka Ridge Wind, which is jointly owned by Avangrid Renewables (15%) and WEC Energy Group (85%). Dairyland Power Cooperative has…
Avangrid Renewables starts construction on 306-MW New Mexico wind farm
Avangrid Renewables has started construction on the La Joya Wind Farm in Torrance County, located about 10 miles west of the Village of Encino on 35,000 acres of state trust land. When completed, the project will consist of 111 turbines and have a total generating capacity of 306 MW. The portion sited on state trust…
Dairyland Power Cooperative signs 52 MW PPA with Avangrid Renewables
Dairyland Power Cooperative has finalized a power purchase agreement with Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of AVANGRID, for 52 MW of wind power from the Tatanka Ridge Wind Farm proposed for Deuel County, South Dakota. Dairyland’s portion of Tatanka Ridge’s output would represent enough renewable energy to power approximately 16,000 homes. Avangrid Renewables is the owner…
Avangrid sells stake in South Dakota wind farm
Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of AVANGRID, Inc. have announced the sale of the ownership interest in the Coyote Ridge Wind Farm, now under construction in Brookings County, South Dakota, to WEC Energy Group of Milwaukee. Under the terms of the transaction, which closed in December 2018, WEC Energy Group acquired an 80% ownership interest in…
Avangrid signs deal with Nike for Texas wind power
Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of Avangrid announced that it has signed its second major wind contract with Nike, this time for 86 MW of Texas wind power. The power purchase agreement (PPA) will cover the remaining portion of Avangrid Renewables 286 MW Karankawa Wind Farm in Bee and San Patricio counties, just east of Mathis,…
Avangrid Renewables signs South Dakota wind PPA with Google
Avangrid Renewables announced that it has signed its first major wind contracts with Google, a subsidiary company of Alphabet, for 196 MW of new South Dakota wind power. The power purchase agreements will cover the full output of Avangrid Renewables’ Coyote Ridge and Tatanka Ridge Wind Farms in Brookings and Deuel counties, each 98 MW, just…
Avangrid Renewables finalizes BOEM offshore wind lease
Avangrid Renewables has released a statement on the finalization of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) offshore lease. The lease allows for the formal process of studying Kitty Hawk, an area which consists of 122,000 acres off the coast of North Carolina. Although, still in the early stages of development, Avangrid Renewables will explore the opportunity to…