White Creek Wind Project, Goldendale, WA

White Creek wind project

9,500 acres

21 miles from Goldendale, WA

The nation’s largest wind project owned by public power providers

Construction began July 2006

Parts were delivered September 2007

89 units completed by October and producing power by November 07

Total project cost was about $360 million

http://www.res-americas.com/ RES America was the construction contractor



     • Improvements to 11 miles of county and state highways

     • 33 miles of fiber optic and electrical cable, 14 miles of transmission line

     • 2 substations with 1800MW total capacity



     • contracted forecasting duties to ( http://www.3tier.com/en/ ) providing accurate wind forecasting



     • White Creek Wind is also reviewing plans to expand output by an additional 100 Megawatts,

using another 40-50 wind turbines



205 MW project will use 89 Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbines, producing enough power for 38,000 residences