Orsted has acquired the 298-megawatt Haystack Wind project in Wayne County, Neb., expanding its footprint in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP).
The Haystack Wind project is located adjacent to Orsted’s existing 230-megawatt Plum Creek wind farm and will use existing interconnection infrastructure in SPP North.
Haystack is expected to come online in fourth quarter 2021, bringing Orsted’s onshore business to 3 gigawatts of capacity in operation and under construction.
“The acquisition of Haystack adds another large-scale project in a region with robust wind resource to our onshore portfolio and is a further reflection of our continuing strategy to supplement our core development activities with opportunistic acquisitions,” said Vishal Kapadia, CFO of Orsted Onshore.
The acquisition follows on the heels of the appointment of David Hardy as the new CEO for
