NextEra Energy filed its long-anticipated application with Reno County on Feb. 15 seeking necessary permits to construct its proposed 220-megawatt Pretty Prairie Wind Energy Center in the southeast quadrant of the county.
The application itself is just 21 pages long, though, with maps, notification lists and legal documents, the full application runs about 70 pages.
NextEra paid a $300 application fee for the project, which will likely cost around $300 million to build, based on recent public wind turbine construction estimates.
A couple of things stand out when studying the project.
First is its sheer size.
Second is the fact the Florida-based company developing the project has chosen to use GE wind turbines – rather than Siemens Gamesa nacelles that would be built in Hutchinson, less than 20 miles away.
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)