The Titan Wind Project is 25MW
wind farm which had a proposed expansion to 5,050
MW, formerly known as Rolling Thunder, based in
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...
. The project developers,
Clipper Windpower and
BP Alternative Energy, expected to build Titan in several phases and, when completed, it would have been one of the
largest wind farms in the world.
The complete wind farm would have used up to 2,020 of Clipper's
Liberty 2.5 MW wind turbines.
However, this is no longer planned, as Clipper Windpower has since ceased production of wind turbines due to financial problems and the potential capacity is double local demand.
Planned capacity
Operating at full planned capacity, the proposed expansion would be able to supply the electricity for 100% of the households in the state several times over. South Dakota's entire electricity consumption in 2005 was 9.811
TWh.
At an assumed
capacity factor
The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that period. The theoretical maximum energy output of a given installation is def ...
of 40% (roughly what is currently observed in South Dakota), a 5.05 GW
nameplate capacity would correspond to an annual generation of 17.7 TWh.
Phase I
Construction of phase I began in 2009 on a site in
Hand County in the Ree Hills south of
Ree Heights.
The project was complete by the end of the year.
[ ] Phase I consists of 10 Liberty C89 2.5 MW wind turbines for a combined nameplate capacity of 25 MW.
Northwestern Energy has a long-term
power purchase agreement
A power purchase agreement (PPA), or electricity power agreement, is a contract between two parties, one which generates electricity (the seller) and one which is looking to purchase electricity (the buyer). The PPA defines all of the commercial te ...
.
Battery storage pilot project
As of 2018,
BP is planning to use the project as a pilot for battery storage with
Tesla.
See also
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List of wind farms in the United States
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Wind power in South Dakota
The state of South Dakota is a leader in the U.S. in wind power generation with over 30% of the state's electricity generation coming from wind in 2017. In 2016, South Dakota had 583 turbines with a total capacity of 977 megawatts (MW) of wind ge ...
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Wind power in the United States
References
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Energy infrastructure completed in 2009
Buildings and structures in Hand County, South Dakota
Wind farms in South Dakota
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