Blue Creek Wind Farm
Communities profit when local landowners harvest the wind in addition to their traditional crops.
Contact
The Blue Creek Wind Farm is now under construction. If you have a question, comment or complaint about construction activity, please let us know. Please see our Complaint Resolution Procedure or contact us directly:
Blue Creek Wind Farm Construction Site Manager
Raymond “Fletch” Fletcher
419-622-3203
Local construction office:
2674 Richey Rd, Convoy, OH 45832
Contact outside normal business hours:
Iberdrola Renewables Remote Operations Center
855-369-9337 (toll free)
View local job openings.
Do you own land in the area that you would like to lease for future wind development? Please contact Project Developer Dan Litchfield at 773-318-1289.
Project Permitting Documents
Click here to view Blue Creek Wind Farm's Project Permitting Documents.
Project Location
Tully, Union, and Hoaglin Townships of Van Wert County, Ohio, and Benton, Blue Creek, and Latty Townships of Paulding County, Ohio.
Project Status
Under construction, expected on-line by end of 2011
Project Capacity
304 Megawatts (MW)
Number of Wind Turbines
152 Gamesa G90, 2.0 MW wind turbines on 100m (328 ft) towers, which are primarily made in Pennsylvania.
Households Served
Each turbine can produce up to two megawatts or 2,700 horsepower, which is enough to power about 500 average Ohio houses. The total project will power approximately 76,000 homes annually. According to the 2000 census, there are 11,600 households in Van Wert County and 7,700 households in Paulding County.
Technology
The turbines will be on a 328 foot (100 meter) tower for a total height of 476 feet when a 148 ft long blade is straight up. Each nacelle weighs 85 tons. Each foundation uses about 65 truckloads of concrete and 60 tons of steel rebar.
Local Economic Benefits
Approximately $1.1 million in annual lease payments to local landowners, $2.7 million in annual PILOT payments to local taxing bodies, 15-20 new permanent jobs, over 300 construction jobs, local purchase of some supplies and construction materials, and local property taxes. Please visit our careers page to view local job openings.
Energy and Environmental Benefits
Offsets carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 1.3 billion pounds per year. That is the equivalent of planting an estimated 525,000 acres of trees — (Van Wert County and Paulding County combined are 530,000 acres), taking 114,000 cars off the road, or reducing the consumption of over 2.1 million barrels of oil. If electric cars were widely available, this project will produce enough electricity to power 479,000 electric cars for a year.
Homegrown wind power will be another crop from the farm fields of Van Wert and Paulding Counties. Blowing all year long, with a strong yield in winter, it will provide for generations.
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