The company developing a 220-megawatt wind farm in eastern Reno County is renaming the development Pretty Prairie Wind Farm, Reno County Commissioner Dan Deming advised Tuesday.
Deming and Commissioner Bob Bush both had individual private meetings with officials of NextEra Energy last week to get an update on the proposed project, which the company initially dubbed Silver Lake Wind, after the name of a road running through the project.
Pretty Prairie being near the center of the proposed 84- to 88-turbine farm, and the familiarity the public has with the town when compared to Silver Lake Road likely led to the change, Deming said.
The company advised its goal is to sell all the energy generated in the county to Kansas utilities.
The company is about halfway “from where it needs to be” on signing land contracts for the project to go forward, Deming said he was told.
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)