Southern Power, a U.S. wholesale energy provider and subsidiary of Southern Company, has acquired its 15th wind project — the 118-megawatt Glass Sands Wind Facility in Oklahoma— from Steelhead Americas, Vestas' development arm in North America.
The project, located in Murray County, is Southern Power's fifth wind facility in the state and contributes to the company's growing fleet of clean energy resources from California to Maine.
Glass Sands was developed by Steelhead Americas and is expected to use 28 wind turbines manufactured by Vestas. Construction, executed by Mortensen, is under way, and the project is expected to achieve commercial operation in the fourth quarter of this year. Once operational, the electricity and associated renewable energy credits generated by the facility will be sold under a power-purchase agreement with Amazon.com Inc.
“We are proud to announce this new addition to our generation portfolio,” said Bill Grantham, president of
