EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) has announced the company has secured a 96 per cent stake in the 175MW Pilot Hill Wind Project (formerly known as K4) from Orion Energy Group LLC (Orion) and Vision Energy LLC.
The project benefits from a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Microsoft Corporation. Pilot Hill Wind Project, located 60 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois, in Kankakee and Iroquois counties, will consist of wind turbines supplied by GE and Vestas. The wind project is situated on the same electric grid that powers Microsoft’s Chicago area datacenter. Physical construction on site is to commence shortly with commercial operation anticipated during the first quarter of 2015.
