John Deere, Wind Capital Group and Missouri cooperatives announce Missouri’s second 50-megawatt wind farm to be constructed near Rock Port, Mo.
It’s not yet built, but the energy generated by developers of Missouri’s first utility-scale wind farm has led to the development of a second wind farm in northwest Missouri.
Less than six months after announcing the state’s first commercial wind farm, Wind Capital Group, John Deere Wind Energy and Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. said today a second 50-megawatt wind farm will be constructed in Atchison County, Missouri.
The 50-megawatt Cow Branch Wind Energy Project will be located between Rock Port and Tarkio, Mo., which is about 50 miles from the site where construction is under way on the first project: the Bluegrass Ridge Wind Farm near King City, Mo., in Gentry County.
“It’s exciting that farmers right here in rural Missouri are the ones leading the way toward more energy independence for our country,” said Tom Carnahan, project developer and president of Wind Capital Group of St. Louis. “I want to thank John Deere, Missouri’s rural electric cooperatives, and most of all, the landowners and community in Atchison County for making this possible.”
Doyle Childers, director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, said, “I applaud the creation of this second large wind-power installation in Missouri.
This renewable energy project helps meet our energy needs by using resources that we have right here in Missouri,” he said. “This will benefit Missouri farmers and communities by improving environmental quality and by keeping money in Missouri’s economy.”
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