Clearway Power Group on July 8 stated it has closed financing and begun a repowering undertaking for the California-based firm’s Cedro Hill wind farm in Webb County, Texas.
Clearway stated the repowering will increase the wind farm’s technology capability to 160 MW, from its present 150 MW. Staff will substitute the blades and nacelle with Basic Electrical (GE) tools throughout the location’s 100 generators. Clearway, in collaboration with Wanzek Development, a MasTec Renewables firm, is enterprise efforts to make sure that present supplies, together with fiberglass, are recycled or diverted from landfills, as a part of Clearway’s zero-waste repowering technique
“Our Cedro Hill repowering is our most up-to-date instance of how Clearway is upgrading its sizable present fleet to deploy resilient, state-of-the-art expertise on websites which have confirmed, high-quality wind assets,” stated Chris Fox, senior vp of Development at Clearway Power Group. “As a long-term proprietor and operator, we’re happy that repowerings like Cedro Hill ship many years of extra worth for our native landowners and communities.”
This undertaking will mark Clearway’s fifth wind farm repower in Texas and sixth throughout its portfolio, amounting to greater than 700 MW of upgrades to deploy resilient, state-of-the-art expertise on websites with sturdy wind assets.
The Cedro Hill repower represents a $269 million funding in South Texas. Upon completion, the repower will add one other 15 years to the undertaking’s working life and lengthen property taxes and landowner funds to Webb County by $27 million.
Cedro Hill was initially constructed and commissioned in 2010, with its generated energy bought below a long-term energy buy settlement with CPS Power, the most important municipal electrical and fuel utility within the nation, serving the town of San Antonio, Texas, and one of many nation’s largest municipal patrons of wind vitality. As a part of the repowering, CPS Power prolonged its present settlement to assist its dedication to rising its renewable vitality portfolio. CPS Power continues to profit from 100% of the facility generated by the Cedro Hill wind farm.
To finance the repowering, Clearway raised $261 million in building, time period mortgage, and letter of credit score services from a financial institution consortium together with DNB Markets, the New York department of Canadian Imperial Financial institution of Commerce, Nationwide Australia Financial institution Restricted, and the New York department of Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank.
“MasTec Renewables is trying ahead to a different profitable undertaking with Clearway Power Group,” stated Brendon Lamppa, Director of Development for MasTec. “This would be the third total, however the first repower undertaking that the groups may have labored collectively on. It is a distinctive alternative given the truth that MasTec Renewables’ legacy personnel carried out the unique construct in 2010. The repower facet additionally brings a recycling element into the equation. All 100 present hubs and 300 present blades can be eliminated, lower on-site, and shipped to a recycling facility to be processed for useful reuse.”
—POWER edited this content material, which was contributed by Clearway Power’s communications division.
