Project Overview
Waverly Wind Farm is located on pasture and cropland in east central Kansas. The project is just south of the town of Waverly and 30 miles east of Emporia, in Coffey County.
Energy Output
Waverly Wind Farm has an installed capacity of 199 megawatts (MW). Waverly's generation is equivalent to the consumption of more than 54,000 Kansas homes.
Benefits
Community
Waverly Wind Farm yields significant economic benefits to the community in the form of payments to landowners, local spending, and annual community investment.
Waverly represents a capital investment of approximately $338 million and has disbursed approximately $2.6 million in cumulative payments to local governments through 2019. The project created 237 full-time equivalent jobs during construction as well as 19 permanent jobs. Through 2019, approximately $9 million has been spent within 50 miles of the wind farm.
Environment
Waverly Wind Farm saves more than 353 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
Waverly Wind Farm is compatible with other land uses and provides a stable form of income to local landowners. More than $3.5 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.
Waverly Wind Farm consists of 90 Gamesa G114 2.1 MW wind turbines and 5 Gamesa G114 2 MW wind turbines.
Made in the USA
The vast majority of wind farm equipment is manufactured in the United States.
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