The Fowler Ridge Wind Farm is a wind farm in Benton County, Indiana, near the city of Fowler, IN about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Lafayette and 90 miles (140 km) northwest of Indianapolis.[1] Fowler Ridge was developed and is jointly owned by BP and Dominion Resources. The project was constructed in two phases and has a nameplate capacity of 600 MW.[2]
Fowler Ridge was the second utility-scale wind power plant in Indiana, after the 130.5 MW Goodland I Wind Farm (also in Benton County) which came online in 2008.[1] Some of the wind turbines are visible from US-52, the main highway through the County. They are also visible along US-41 in the Boswell area.
[edit] Phase one
The first phase of the project is online[3] and consists of 222 wind turbines, 182 Vestas V82-1.65 MW turbines and 40 Clipper C-96 2.5 MW[3][4] turbines, with a nameplate capacity of 400 MW.[1][5][6]
[edit] Phase two
Phase two consists of 133 GE 1.5 MW wind turbines with a nameplate capacity of 200 MW. Construction began in early 2009 and phase two became operational in early 2010.[7]
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