Allete Clean Energy signs PPA for 303 MW Onshore Wind project in USA
ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of ALLETE, Inc. announced renewable energy sale agreements with the Oshkosh Corporation and Hormel Foods for a combined 100 megawatts from its Caddo wind site under construction in Oklahoma, USA.
The 303 MW Caddo site, with renewable energy sale agreements with three investment-grade Fortune 500 customers, will double ALLETE Clean Energy’s capacity to serve the accelerating corporate demand for clean energy. The project is in Caddo County in southern Oklahoma.
Caddo’s approximately 110 turbines will produce enough energy to power the equivalent of about 110,000 homes, and increases ALLETE Clean Energy’s total operating, under construction and build-transfer wind energy projects to more than 1,450 megawatts of nameplate capacity.
The project has the support of local communities, where benefits include more than US$50 million in tax revenue, US$54 million in payments to landowners, and the creation of about 200 jobs during construction and 12 to 15 long-term operations jobs.
The wind project is expected to be operational by the end of 2021.
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