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Kit Carson Windpower Project
In July 2009, Tri-State entered into a 20-year agreement with a subsidiary of Duke Energy Corp. to purchase the output of a 51-megawatt wind farm in east-central Colorado. The Kit Carson Windpower Project, named for the county in which it will be sited, was completed November 2010 and is comprised of 34 1.5-megawatt General Electric turbines on a 6,000-acre site northwest of Burlington, Colo. - within the service territory of Tri-State member co-op K.C. Electric Association. The facility can generate enough electricity to power the requirements of 12,000 to 14,000 homes.
Other wind sources
 In 1998, Tri-State began purchasing wind generation from a Wyoming wind site under an interim agreement with PacifiCorp. A year later, the G&T signed a 15-year agreement with Platte River Power Authority of Fort Collins, Colo., to purchase energy from that utility's wind farm near Medicine Bow, Wyo. Currently, Tri-State purchases approximately 153 megawatt-hours of wind power per month from that site.
As a member of Basin Electric Power Cooperative in Bismarck, N.D., Tri-State also purchases a portion of its available wind generation from Basin's Prairie Winds Program. Prairie Winds is comprised of 20 wind project sites totaling 719 megawatts of capacity.
PRPA Wind Tubines
See and hear the turbines in these 25-second video clips videotaped at the wind generation site near the town of Medicine Bow, Wyo.
Videos courtesy of Platte River Power Authority
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