BISMARCK - Basin Electric Power Cooperative announced Wednesday it has signed power purchase agreements with new wind farms in Richardton and Tioga.
The NextEra Energy Resources plant will be called the Dickinson Wind Energy Center and produce 150 megawatts at the farm near Richardton. Tradewind Energy is developing the Lindahl Wind Project, another 150 megawatt farm near Tioga.
NextEra’s farm is slated to be complete by the end of 2015, and Tradewind’s by the end of 2016.
“We are tremendously excited to be in North Dakota where the wind energy industry is only beginning to capitalize on the region’s enormous potential," Sanjay Bhasin, Tradewind’s senior vice president for business development, said in a Basin press release.
