Blue Creek (Heartland) is a 304MW onshore wind power project. It is located in Ohio, the US. The project is currently active. It has been developed in multiple phases. Post completion of construction, the project got commissioned in June 2012.

Project Type	Total Capacity (MW)	Active Capacity (MW)	Pipeline Capacity (MW)	Project Status	Project Location	Project Developer
Onshore	304	304	–	Active	Ohio, the US	Avangrid Renewables

Description

The project is developed and owned by Avangrid Renewables.

The project supplies enough clean energy to power 76,000 households, offsetting 725,747.792t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) a year. The project cost is $600m.

The Tubular Steel towers installed at the Blue Creek (Heartland) (Blue Creek (Heartland) 1), site are 100m high.

The Tubular Steel towers installed at the Blue Creek (Heartland) (Blue Creek (Heartland) 2), site are 100m high.

Development Status

The project is currently active. The project got commissioned in June 2012.

Power Purchase Agreement

American Municipal Power, FirstEnergy and Ohio State University are the power offtakers from the project.

Contractors Involved

M. A. Mortenson was selected to render EPC services for the wind power project.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy was selected as the turbine supplier for the wind power project. The project consists of 152 units of G90-2.0 MW turbines, each with 2MW nameplate capacity.

Avangrid Renewables is the O&M contractor for the wind power project.

About Avangrid Renewables

Avangrid Renewables LLC (Avangrid Renewables) a subsidiary of Avangrid Renewables Holdings, Inc., is a renewable energy company that carries out electricity generation from renewable energy sources including wind, biomass, solar energy and thermal energy. The company also offers services such as balancing, scheduling and transportation of natural gas. It operates various renewable energy projects to generate electricity. The company serves to federal and state agencies, institutional retail, investor owned utilities, joint action agencies, wholesale customers, commercial and industrial customers and other public. Avangrid Renewables is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the US.

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