“Xcel Energy set a record for wind energy this month thanks to 229 turbines spinning at the utility’s newest wind farm, a $743 million eastern Colorado project completed last month.
The 500-megawatt Cheyenne Ridge Wind Project, built on 100,000 acres in Kit Carson and Cheyenne counties over the past year, joined other wind farms in supplying nearly 70% of the electricity Xcel Energy produced in Colorado for an hour in early September, setting a new company record for wind generation, the company said this week.
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Cheyenne Ridge is expected to generate about $107 million in landowner payments and another $29 million in new local tax revenue for northeast Colorado over the life of the project, Xcel said.”
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Avery, Greg. Denver Business Journal 25 September 2020.