LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]



Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

CPV looking at Ellis County for 200 MW wind farm 

You might like to know that CPV (Competitive Power Ventures) plans to file an application for a 200 MW wind project in Ellis County on Monday. The proposed project will be located about five plus miles southwest of Hays. Their plan is to offer it to Westar.

According to a local source most of the project area is native grassland on modest ridges, but the company has suggested that it will be on 40 percent native grassland. This site was reportedly developed by the same individual/company that developed the Moyer Ranch project proposal in Geary County. “Ownership” of the Ellis County project has reportedly passed through about three transformations so far.

I can’t say if this is or isn’t a desirable site for a project. Based on the criteria that it has a considerable amount of native grassland and with some knowledge of the area, it sounds like a “marginal” project that would rank as a “4”³ on a desirable curve with Spearville ranking a “9”³ or “10”³ and the proposed Smoky Hills Project and Elk River a “0”³ or “1.”

It would be really easy for a developer to find numerous project areas on cultivated landscapes in this part of Kansas that are close to the existing transmission lines. It is unfortunate they haven’t pursued these areas as alternatives worthy of advancement and “green certification.”

CPV is involved in over $15 billion of project finance and merger and acquisition transactions relating to power generation assets. That represents more than 20,000 megawatts of power plants developed, acquired, financed or sold that are in operation today, enough to power 13 million homes. CPV currently manages over 5,500 megawatts of operational power generation on behalf of owners with extensive financial resources.

In 2005, CPV teamed with a subsidiary of ArcLight Capital Partners to form CPV Wind Ventures, LLC and are in active development on wind power projects across North America.

CPV Wind Ventures, a privately held company owned by subsidiaries of Competitive Power Ventures and ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC. CPV Wind is developing one of the broadest wind energy development programs in the industry.

CPV Wind develops wind energy projects from conception through construction and commercial operation.

CPV Wind targets areas where wind resources are sufficient to support economic wind power generation and, they say, “where the operation of a wind farm is compatible with the land and local environment.”

They are heading west on I-70 to Colorado with their wind farm construction regardless of siting recommendations. One day western Kansas, that is everything west of Salina, is going to be a maze of wind mills, ethanol plants, fossil fuel fired energy plants and biodiesel plants. And let’s not forget the feed lots and packing plants. All the products, benefits, and huge profits will be packaged and shipped to Eastern Kansas, Colorado and other states. Western Kansas, now a most beautiful part of Kansas, won’t be a fit place to live, while eastern Kansas where most of the people and politicians reside, can be assured none of this will ever be in their back yards.

Then, we have the matter of diminishing water supply. All the cards are stacked against western Kansas.

By Peg Britton

kansasprairieblog

2 March 2007

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon