US Element Power dusting off plans to set up wind farm in Ohio - report

(ADPnews) - Nov 30, 2010 - US alternative energy firm Element Power is working to revise plans for a wind farm installation in Ohio and file a new regulatory application, US news portal MansfieldNewsJournal.com reported last week.

An application with the Ohio Power Sitting Board to advance the Black Fork Wind project was pulled in August after Element Power bought the development assets of the farm's developer, Gary Energetics, the portal wrote.

Now, according to Element Power's senior project manager Scott Hawken, the company intends to place a new application for the project by the end of the year, aiming to start construction in 2012.

The initial cost of the project, which will be located in the Richland and Crawford counties, was estimated at USD 440 million (EUR 334m).

The new plan envisages an area of 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of mainly agricultural land, comparable to the previous plan, Hawken said. Some 20,000 acres of land have been contracted since 2007. The size, location and quantity of the wind turbines are yet to be set, but Hawken expects that 90 to 100 wind turbines will be installed, lower than the previously estimated 112 turbines for the project's first phase.

(USD 1.0 = EUR 0.759)

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