June
16, 2004
Governor Freudenthal, FPL Energy and PPM Energy
dedicate Wyoming Wind Energy Center
Evanston, WY – FPL
Energy LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group (NYSE: FPL), and PPM Energy,
Inc. (PPM), ScottishPower’s (NYSE: SPI) competitive US energy
business, today joined about 200 guests near Evanston, Wyoming
to dedicate FPL Energy’s Wyoming Wind Energy Center.
Governor David Freudenthal joined FPL Energy’s Senior Vice
President of Development Mike O’Sullivan and PPM Energy Chief
Executive Officer Terry Hudgens and more than 200 guests to celebrate
the commercial operation of the Wyoming Wind Energy Center and the
organizations that helped bring the facility to Wyoming.
"Renewable energy sources certainly play
a role in giving Wyoming a diverse energy portfolio," said Governor
Freudenthal. "We have good reason to welcome wind development and
the showcase it provides for Wyoming and its array of natural resources."
O’Sullivan
remarked, "The Wyoming Wind Energy Center is an excellent example
of a great project put together by a terrific team. We are grateful
for the support we have received for our company and this project."
"Wyoming
in general has a great wind resource that can bring clean, renewable
energy to customers in Utah, Wyoming, California and throughout
the West," said PPM CEO Terry Hudgens. “This particular wind
plant also happens to perform especially well when our customers
experience peak loads.”
FPL Energy’s Wyoming Wind Energy
Center is capable of generating enough electricity to power nearly
43,000 homes. Construction of the 80 wind turbines at the wind
farm began late in 2003. The 144-megawatt facility is owned and
operated by FPL Energy. The Wyoming Wind Energy Center was originally
developed by Orion Energy. PPM Energy purchases all of the output
from the facility under a long-term contract and markets the output
to wholesale customers including 19 cities in Utah.
FPL Energy is a leading wholesale
generator of clean energy, including natural gas, wind, solar,
hydroelectric and nuclear. It is the nation’s leader in wind energy with
42 wind facilities in operation in 15 states. It is a subsidiary
of FPL Group (NYSE:FPL), one of the nation’s largest providers
of electricity-related services with annual revenues of more than
$9 billion. FPL Group’s principal subsidiary is Florida Power & Light
Company, one of the nation’s largest electric utilities,
serving more than 4.2 million customer accounts in Florida. Additional
information is available on the Internet at www.FPLEnergy.com, www.FPLGroup.com and www.FPL.com.
PPM Energy is part of the ScottishPower
((NYSE: SPI) group of companies. With a portfolio of more than
830 megawatts of wind power, PPM has a goal of bringing 2,000 megawatts
of new wind power to market by 2010. PPM balances its supply portfolio
with sales to wholesale customers, placing almost all of its output
in long-term contracts. Major customers include the cities of Seattle,
Sacramento, Pasadena, Anaheim as well as investor-owned utilities
such as Alliant Energy and Xcel Energy and the federal Bonneville
Power Administration. PPM also has about 800 megawatts of clean
gas resources under its control to give customers a wide range
of options for adding environmentally responsible energy to their
portfolios. The American Wind Energy Association honored PPM with
its "Market Maker of the Year" award for aggressively finding markets
for wind power. For more information, please visit www.ppmenergy.com.
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