Wild Horse
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Performance Analysis
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Hazard Exposure
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Commercial arrangement
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Context
Wild Horse is a hybrid wind and solar power plant located in Kittitas County, Washington. The plant, which began operating in 2006, has a total capacity of 273.1 MW and is owned by PUGET HOLDINGS and operated by Puget Sound Energy Inc. It is the second-largest of 17 wind plants in Washington state, and ranks 140th out of 734 nationally. The facility consists of three generators utilizing onshore wind turbine and solar photovoltaic technologies. The balancing authority is Puget Sound Energy, and the plant operates within the WECC NERC region. The wind component of Wild Horse uses Vestas V80-1.8 turbines with a hub height of 67 meters and a rotor diameter of 80 meters. The solar component uses fixed-tilt tracking. The plant's latest annual generation was 590,982 MWh, resulting in a capacity factor of 24.7%. Financial data indicates an installed cost of $1644.05 per kW, with data sourced from FERC filings.
The Wild Horse Wind Farm is a 273-megawatt wind farm that generates energy for Puget Sound Energy that consists of one hundred twenty seven 1.8-megawatt Vestas V80 turbines and twenty two 2.0-megawatt Vestas V80 turbines on a 10,800-acre (4,400 ha) site in Kittitas County, Washington, 17 miles (27 km) east of Ellensburg, Washington. The turbines are placed on the high open Shrub-steppe ridge tops of Whiskey Dick Mountain, which was chosen for its energetic wind resource, remote location, and access to nearby power transmission lines. The towers are 221 feet (67 m) tall, and each blade is 129 feet (39 m) long, with a total rotor diameter of 264 feet (80 m), larger than the wingspan of a Boeing 747. The turbines can begin producing electricity with wind speeds as low as 9 mph (14 km/h) and reach full production at 31 mph (50 km/h). They shut down at sustained wind speeds of 56 mph (90 km/h). The site is also home to one of the largest solar array (500 kW) in Washington.
