Highland Wind Energy Center

Highland Wind Project
Country United States
Location O'Brien county in Iowa
Coordinates 43°05′N 95°34′W / 43.083°N 95.567°W / 43.083; -95.567Coordinates: 43°05′N 95°34′W / 43.083°N 95.567°W / 43.083; -95.567
Status mostly operational
Construction began 2013
Commission date 2015
Construction cost about $1 billion
Owner(s) MidAmerican Energy Company
Operator(s) MidAmerican Energy Company
Power generation
Units operational 218
Make and model Siemens 2.3 MW
Nameplate capacity 502 MW
Capacity factor 36-40+[1]
Largest in state when completed.

The Highland Wind Project is a large wind power project in O'Brien County, Iowa. The 500 MW project was placed online in 2015.

Project

The project is part of $1.9 billion in wind power construction announced by MidAmerican Energy in 2013. The project is the largest in Iowa, as well as the largest single-phase project in the world. Siemens is supplying 218 2.3 MW wind turbines for the project.[2]

The project is located at the southern end of Buffalo Ridge. The proposed Rock Island Clean Line HVDC transmission line would originate just north of the project.[3]

An expansion of the project, formerly known as Highland II was developed by Invenergy.[4] This expansion was purchased by MidAmerican energy and constructed in 2016 as the 250 MW O'Brien Wind Farm. It also lies in O'Brien county, just to the north of the Highland project.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Iowa Utilities Board Docket No.: RPU-2003-0003. Iowa Utilities Board. Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ↑ "MidAmerican begins construction on Iowa's largest wind project". Power Engineering. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "Wind energy boom blows into Northwest Iowa county". Sioux City Journal.
  4. ↑ "O'Brien County's 2nd major wind farm on fast track". Cherokee Chronicle Times. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  5. ↑ O'Brien Wind Project
  • MidAmerican Energy - Highland Wind Project


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