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Commencing operations, Ørsted has initiated the Sunflower Wind, an onshore wind farm located in Marion County, Kansas, inside the USA. Marking Ørsted’s thirteenth operational wind farm within the nation, Sunflower Wind boasts a capability to produce vitality to over 70,000 houses.
Past delivering cost-effective, renewable vitality, Sunflower Wind is poised to contribute financial benefits to its host group and the state economies. The undertaking incorporates an revolutionary plane detection lighting system, making certain that the night-time lights on the wind generators solely blink when plane are detected. This measure is designed to attenuate mild air pollution for residents within the neighborhood.
Presently, Ørsted has virtually 6 GW of operational or under-construction onshore renewable vitality capability. The objective is to attain a worldwide onshore renewable vitality capability of 17.5 GW by the shut of the last decade.
David Hardy, Group Government Vice President and CEO of Area Americas at Ørsted, mentioned, “We’re thrilled to rejoice this achievement and our first clear vitality undertaking in Kansas with the group, legislators, and our taking part landowners. With Sunflower Wind, we now have 13 operational wind farms within the US, producing 832 MW within the Southwest Energy Pool.”
