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More wind power for
wind-rich Colorado
Leeward Renewable Energy is liking the wind resource in
northeastern Colorado—so much so that it recently completed
the 171 MW Mountain Breeze Wind Farm, which complements its
nearby Cedar Creek Wind project, both in the Rocky Mountain
foothills of Colorado’s wind-rich Weld County.
By Paul
MacDonald
The bison in Weld County, in northeastern
Colorado, are carrying on their grazing these
days as they did a couple of years’ back, though they
now have company—in the form of wind turbines.
Dallas-based Leeward Renewable Energy LLC has
completed and is now operating its Mountain Breeze
Wind Farm in Weld County, and the turbines have
company in bison and cattle in this largely rural area of
Colorado, which sits north of Denver and abuts on to
Wyoming and Nebraska. The county lies to the east of
the Rocky Mountain foothills.
Mountain Breeze is made up of 62 GE Renewable
Energy wind turbines with a total project capacity of 171
MW. Leeward designed and constructed the greenfield
project from the ground up and will own and operate
the wind farm for the long-term. Mountain Breeze is selling
its output to Xcel Energy Colorado under a long-term
power purchase agreement.
The project created approximately 300 jobs during
peak construction and increased its contribution to Weld
County in the form of property tax payments. Increase
is the operative word, as Leeward Energy already pays
taxes to the county, from an existing wind project in Weld
County, Cedar Creek Wind, which started operating in
2007.
Leeward also supplies renewable energy to Xcel
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