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Local News - Local News - January 17, 2013
Wind farm powers up on the Palouse
Recently finished project touted to meet equivalent needs of 30,000 customers

By Jessica Valencia
Of the Journal of Business

The Palouse wind farm developed by wind energy company First Wind and situated in Whitman County, has a total of 58 turbines generating electricity for Avista.
The Palouse wind farm developed by wind energy company First Wind and situated in Whitman County, has a total of 58 turbines generating electricity for Avista.
-Photo courtesy of First Wind
Work on the Palouse wind farm, a two-year project to construct turbines meant to generate electricity for Spokane-based Avista Corp., is now complete, an addition that the energy company says will pad its growing renewable energy portfolio.

The 40-acre, 58-turbine wind farm, named Palouse Wind and situated eight miles west of Oakesdale, Wash., went online Dec. 13 and generates 105 megawatts of energy, or the equivalent of providing power for 30,000 Avista residential customers, com...


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