ENGIE North America begins construction of 196 MW wind project in Kansas
ENGIE North America Inc. has announced the start of construction of the 196 MW East Fork Wind Project in Thomas County, Kansas. Located near the city of Colby in northwest Kansas, the project is the second phase of the Solomon Forks Wind Project, currently under construction.
The East Fork project, located immediately east of Solomon Forks, will provide clean energy to Brown-Forman under a PPA and has entered into a Proxy Revenue Swap with Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty’s specialist weather risk team, in collaboration with its partners at Nephila Climate. The project has a total capital investment of approximately US$228 million.
East Fork is part of the portfolio recently acquired by a subsidiary of ENGIE North America from Infinity Power Holdings, a joint venture between Infinity Renewables and MAP® Energy. It has been under active development for over 10 years, originally developed by Airstream Energy.
The project will use 72 GE turbines, each having a capacity of 2.72 MW. M.A. Mortenson company has been selected as the construction general contractor.
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