Spinning Spur II reaches commercial operation

July 7, 2014 | By

EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) announced today that the 161 MW Spinning Spur II Wind Project in Texas has reached commercial operation.

Spinning Spur II. Credit: Business Wire

Spinning Spur II commenced construction of 87 1.85 MW, 87-meter rotor wind turbines 40 miles west of Amarillo in June 2013. The power is sold pursuant to an 11-year purchase agreement. The project is one of the first to feed into the new CREZ (Competitive Renewable Energy Zone) transmission infrastructure which enables access to the strong renewable resources of West Texas and the Texas Panhandle, and delivery of the wind energy resource to the high electricity demand areas in the state. Texas leads the country in installed wind capacity with 12,300 MW -- enough clean electricity to power 3.3 million average U.S. homes.

With the Spinning Spur II project in operation, EDF RE's installed capacity, since entering the Texas market in 2012, is 472 MW -- with another 700 MW in late-stage development.

EDF Renewable Services will provide long-term operations and maintenance for the facility, balance of plant, project oversight, and 24/7 remote monitoring from its NERC compliant Operations Control Center (OCC) -- which provides an efficient, reliable, and secure operating platform, while benefiting from the centralization of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) functions and consolidation of multiple vendor SCADA environments to provide a common operating view.

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