The Elk River Wind Project is a 150 megawatt
wind farm
A wind farm, also called a wind park or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an exten ...
near
Beaumont in
Butler County, Kansas
Butler County is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas and is the largest county in the state by total area. Its county seat is El Dorado and its most populous city is Andover. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 67,380. The ...
. The Elk River Project subsidiary is owned by
PPM Energy and the project has been operating since 2005.
Empire District Electric selected
Elk River, and signed a twenty-year agreement with PPM Energy to purchase wind energy from the farm.
See also
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Smoky Hills Wind Farm
The Smoky Hills Wind Farm (Phase I & Phase II) is a 250 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Lincoln and Ellsworth Counties, 140 miles west of Topeka in Kansas, north of Ellsworth. The farm is operated by Enel Green Power. Highway K-14 and Interstate 70 ...
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Energy infrastructure completed in 2005
Buildings and structures in Butler County, Kansas
Wind farms in Kansas
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