{"id":1484,"date":"2009-09-30T00:44:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T07:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensobottles.com\/blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2009-09-30T00:44:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T07:44:40","slug":"renewable-energy-arizonas-first-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Energy, Arizona&#8217;s First Wind Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- .style1 {color: #0000FF} --><a href=\"http:\/\/ensobottles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/windfarm2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-520\" src=\"http:\/\/ensobottles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/windfarm2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarlier  this year (2009), construction began on the first renewable energy wind farm in  Arizona.\u00a0 The project is owned and maintained by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iberdrolarenovables.es\/\">Iberdrola Renewables<\/a> and went  online earlier this month (Aug. 2009).\u00a0 The electricity produced by the  first phase of the wind project will serve 15,000 homes.\u00a0 100% of the 63MW  of electricity produced by the 30 wind turbines will be purchased by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srpnet.com\/\">Salt River Project<\/a> (SRP).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups.php?ref=sb#\/group.php?gid=67606944252\">ENSO  Bottles<\/a> took a tour of the Dry Lake Wind Farm and was onsite during the  first power tests to SRP.\u00a0 \u00a0We highly recommend touring the facility,  the Iberdrola maintenance staff are very knowledgeable and friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The Dry Lake Wind Farm has a total of 30 wind turbines with  each turbine capable of producing approximately 2.5MW of electricity.\u00a0  Each wind turbine tower is approximately 280\u2019 high with the tip of the blade  standing at 400\u2019 high.\u00a0 The average wind speed in the area is 4 meters\/sec  with the turbines able to produce electricity down to 2 meters\/sec.<\/p>\n<p>The energy from the wind farm will travel on existing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.com\/\">Arizona Public Service Co<\/a>. power lines to Cholla  Power Plant, owned by APS. Then it will travel on Salt River Project&#8217;s lines to  Coronado Generating Station, which SRP owns. From Coronado, the energy will use  existing power lines to get to SRP customers in the Phoenix area.<\/p>\n<p>This area in Arizona is an ideal location for such a project  as it is flat, desolate and constantly windy.\u00a0 Phase two of Dry Lake Wind  Farm has already been approved which will add another 30 wind turbines.\u00a0  The construction for phase two will begin in 2010 and will also go online that  same year.<\/p>\n<p>This  is a fantastic addition to Arizona as it shows our commitment to green and  clean energy solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Clark<br \/>\n<strong>ENSO Bottles, LLC<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">866-936-3676<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Web: <a class=\"style1\" href=\"www.ensobottles.com\">www.ensobottles.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year (2009), construction began on the first renewable energy wind farm in Arizona.\u00a0 The project is owned and maintained by Iberdrola Renewables and went online earlier this month (Aug. 2009).\u00a0 The electricity produced by the first phase of the wind project will serve 15,000 homes.\u00a0 100% of the 63MW of electricity produced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[879,880,881,882,883,884,885],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-blogs","tag-energy","tag-green-energy","tag-iberdola","tag-renewable-energy","tag-salt-river-project","tag-wind-energy","tag-wind-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}