E.ON adds US-based Colbeck’s Corner Wind Farm to its renewable portfolio

With Colbeck’s Corner, E.ON is putting a new industrial-scale onshore wind farm into operation in the United States. The project, located east of Amarillo, Texas, has an installed capacity of 200 megawatts. The 112 turbines can generate enough energy to supply 64,000 households with CO2-neutral electricity. Named in honor of Doug Colbeck, an E.ON employee and wind park developer who died from a serious illness, this is the 20th wind farm that E.ON has put into operation in the US. Altogether throughout North America, the company has built wind projects with a volume of 3 gigawatts and is one of the primary operators of onshore wind farms in the US. ….