Horizon Wind Energy Ends Bid for Kansas Wind Farm
Company sites inability to lease enough land as reason for stoppage.


July 20, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Horizon Wind Energy has discontinued its effort to erect a wind farm in central Kansas, the company told the Hutchinson (Kan.) News.

The Houston-based energy company, which is a subsidiary of Portugal's EDP Renewables, said it was having too difficult of a time leasing land in Reno County. Horizon said it needed 10,000 acres of land, but over the course of a year, it was unable to lease enough land, mostly because landowners were hesitant about signing long-term lease agreements.

Horizon development project manager Josh Bohach told the News that the amount of land needed to facilitate a 100 megawatt farm is small, but large areas of land are required by the company to allow for siting and undeveloped land around the turbines.

"Geographically, it's a large area," Bohach said. "But what is actually taken out to generate production is only 1 to 3 percent."

The Horizon withdrawal brings the number of wind projects submitted and withdrawn in Kansas to 99 since 2001, according to the Hutchinson News.

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