Project Overview
Kittitas Valley Wind Farm is located to the east and west of Highway 97, approximately 12 miles northwest of Ellensburg in Kittitas County, Washington. The project is located on privately and publicly owned forest and rangeland.
Energy Output
Kittitas Valley Wind Farm has an installed capacity of 100.8 megawatts (MW). Kittitas Valley's generation is equivalent to the consumption of more than 26,000 Washington homes.
Benefits
Community
Kittitas Valley Wind Farm yields significant economic benefits to the community in the form of payments to landowners, local spending, and annual community investment.
Kittitas Valley represents a capital investment of approximately $221 million and has disbursed $4 million in cumulative payments to local governments through 2019. The project created 101 full-time equivalent jobs during construction as well as 12 permanent jobs. Through 2019, approximately $11.6 million has been spent within 50 miles of the wind farm.
Environment
Kittitas Valley Wind Farm saves more than 179 million gallons of water each year and displaces carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants, a major contributor to climate change. Wind energy also enhances air quality by helping to mitigate the health effects of harmful air pollutants.
Landowners
Kittitas Valley Wind Farm is compatible with other land uses and provides a stable form of income to local landowners. More than $4.7 million has been paid to the wind farm’s landowners through 2019. These supportive landowners participate in long-term lease and easement agreements that cover turbines, access roads, and transmission corridors.
Technology
Turbines
Modern wind turbine generators are sophisticated, high-tech machines designed to capture the kinetic energy of the wind and convert it into electricity. A turbine’s blades capture the wind and rotate an internal shaft connected to a gearbox spinning a generator to produce electricity.
Kittitas Valley Wind Farm consists of 48 Suzlon S88 2.1 MW wind turbines.
Made in the USA
The vast majority of wind farm equipment is manufactured in the United States.
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kittitasvalley@edpr.com
3701 Hayward Road
Cle Elum, WA 98922
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