Renewable power firm Ørsted has begun operations at Sunflower Wind, a 200 MW wind farm positioned in Marion County, Kan.
Ørsted labored with Schneider Electrical to ink energy buy agreements with Amcor, PepsiCo, Stryker, Residents, and Walmart’s Venture Gigaton Cohort, which incorporates Amy’s Kitchen, Nice Lakes Cheese, The J.M. Smucker Co., Levi Strauss & Co., and Valvoline International Operations.
The mission will make the most of a brand new plane detection lighting system in order that the nighttime lights on the generators blink solely when plane are detected to scale back mild air pollution for residents.
Working with The Conservation Fund, Ørsted can also be supporting voluntary land conservation efforts for as much as 3,000 acres positioned throughout the Flint Hills in central Kansas and partnering with The Kansas Chapter of The Nature Conservancy to revive further land underneath conservation easements.
Ørsted presently has almost 6 GW of onshore renewable power capability in operation or underneath building and goals to succeed in 17.5 GW of worldwide onshore renewable power capability by the top of the last decade.
