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Blue Sky Green Field Wind Energy Center is a wind farm in northeast Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. The 10,600-acre (4,300 ha) facility is located in the towns of Calumet and Marshfield. Owned by We Energies, it became the largest operating installation using wind power in Wisconsin when it came online in 2008.
Read more on WikipediaThe Blue Sky Green Field Wind Project is a 145.2 MW wind power plant located in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin. The plant began operating in 2008 and utilizes a single generator comprised of multiple onshore wind turbines. The facility is owned by WEC Energy Group and operated by Wisconsin Electric Power Co. The wind turbines are Vestas V82-1.65 models, with a rotor diameter of 82 meters and a hub height of 80 meters.
The plant's latest annual generation was 335,439 MWh, resulting in a capacity factor of 26.4%. The plant operates within the Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) balancing authority and the ReliabilityFirst Corporation (RFC) NERC region. The installed cost of the plant was $2081.5 per kW, according to FERC data. The Blue Sky Green Field Wind Project is ranked as the second largest of three wind plants in Wisconsin, and 544th out of 734 wind plants nationally.
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