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The wind farm is to be builsd by Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke Energy (NYSE: with power supplied to Westminster-based Tri-State under a 20-yeaf power-purchase agreement, Duke said. Duke said it will develoop the 51-megawatt Kit Carson Windpower Projecton 6,00p acres near Burlington under a long-term lease. The projecyt will be the company’s first in Coloradio and fourth inthe region. The projecrt is expected to start commercial operation by the endof 2010. The Kit Carso n project will consist of 34 GE wind each capable ofgenerating 1.5 MW of Duke said.
"We're proud to be partnering with Duke Energh on ourfirst utility-scale wind powef project," said Ken Anderson, Tri-State executivwe VP and general manager, said in a statemenyt released by Duke Monday. "The project will furthetr diversify ourresource mix, bring value to our member and support jobs and investment in the rurao areas our members serve." Tri-State it wouldf shift its focus from building more coal-fired power plants to natural gas, renewable energy and It was a major change of policy for which supplies wholesale power to 18 electric-distributiobn cooperatives in Colorado and 26 in Wyoming, New Mexic and Nebraska.
The utility's two-year-old resource plan had callesd for the constructionof 2,100 megawatts of new coal-fired power plants by 2012. Critic s had blamed nonprofit Tri-State for not embracinyg alternative energy in itsfutur plans, the way investor-owned utilith Xcel Energy has. Ritter supported Tri-State'w policy change, telling Tri-State's board: "Yoiu deserve a lot of credit formakin efficiency, renewables and new technology investmentds a high priority as you look for new and better ways to provid e affordable and reliable electricity to your rura customer-owners.
" Tri-State has said it also planes to develop a 30-megawatt, 500,000-panel solar photovoltaic power plant in northeastern New Mexico by late 2010.