Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) has signed long-term power purchase agreements for a total of 359 MW of renewable energy from wind projects in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Together with a 49 MW agreement signed by the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, SWEPCO and its affiliates have exceeded the 400 MW renewable energy commitment in a recent settlement of legal issues involving the John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant.
The agreements will more than quadruple SWEPCO’s wind energy portfolio. The new series of 20-year agreements includes: three contracts totaling 201 MW from Canadian Hills Wind, owned by Apex Wind Energy Holdings and located in Canadian County, west of Oklahoma City, Okla ; 79.6 MW from High Majestic Wind II, owned by NextEra Energy Resources and located in Carson and Potter Counties in the Texas Panhandle and 77.8 MW from Flat Ridge 2 Wind Energy owned by BP Wind Energy and Sempra U.S. Gas and Power and located in Barber, Harper, Kingman and Sumner Counties, southwest of Wichita, Kan.