Another Wind Farm Becomes Operational in Oklahoma

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EDF Renewable Energy’s Great Western Wind Project located in northwest Oklahoma went into operation in the past few weeks. The project will provide Google under a long-term Power Purchase Agreement with EDF, a firm headquartered in San Diego, California.

Commercial operations started Dec. 21 and involve 93 separate wind turbines. They are capable of generating enough electricity to power 70,000 average Oklahoma homes. The wind towers are located in Woodward and Ellis Counties and join a long list of other wind farm operations already in the region.

The agreement with Google to purchase the power from Great Western was first announced in Paris, France in December 2015 as part of Google’s presence at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21).

EDF RE and Google forged a relationship in December 2012, when Google made an approximately $200 million equity investment in EDF RE’s Spinning Spur Wind Project, located in Oldham County, Texas.

With the addition of Great Western, Google’s renewable energy long-term contracts reach 2.6 gigawatts, making them not only one of the first corporations to procure renewables, but also the largest corporate buyer of renewable power in the world to date. EDF’s North America portfolio of corporate purchasers also includes Procter & Gamble, Salesforce, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Groupo Modelo, and Walmart.