PG&E buying 85 MW of windpower from PPM

Pacific Gas and Electric has entered into a new 15-year agreement with PPM Energy, a developer of utility-scale wind power.

PG&E will buy wind energy from the company’s Klondike III Wind Project in Sherman County, Oregon.

The project will deliver up to 85 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy to PG&E’s customers in Northern and Central California.

This is the second major wind project PG&E has signed with PPM.

In 2006, PG&E began delivering 75 MW of wind energy as part of a 15-year agreement to purchase wind power from the Shiloh Wind Power Project in Solano County, California (see Birth of a windfarm.)

The Klondike project is currently under construction and is expected to begin delivering electricity later this year.

PG&E currently supplies 12 percent of its energy from qualifying renewable sources under California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) program.

Of this amount, approximately 11 percent of the renewable energy is derived from wind.

PG&E recently announced new solar contracts (see GreenVolts lands agreement with PG&E.)

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