Crownbutte Wind Power Receives Grid Interconnection Agreement for Gascoyne I Project 01/12 06:45 AM
MANDAN, N.D., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crownbutte Wind Power, Inc. (CBWP:$0.50,00$0.00,000.00%) announced today that the company has signed a grid interconnection agreement with the Midwest ISO and Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. for the interconnection of the Company's Gascoyne I 19.5 MW wind project in Bowman County, North Dakota. The agreement has been submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approval.
No electrical generation projects of any kind, renewable or non-renewable, can be connected to the power transmission grid without an interconnection agreement from the system operator. Â In the upper Midwest, the system operator is the Midwest ISO ("MISO").
In order to get an interconnection agreement, developers must first place a candidate project in an "interconnection queue," and wait while the system operator completes a series of studies to estimate: a) the impact of the many queued projects on the power lines, and b) the cost of any new lines and other upgrades that will be required before any new projects can be put on line. The costs of these studies are paid by the developer and typically amount to several hundred thousand dollars.
The queue process is also very time consuming, taking as much as two to three years to complete. If it is found that new transmission is required, the timeline for interconnection can even be a decade or more.
Tim Simons, CEO of Crownbutte Wind Power Inc. (CBWP:$0.50,00$0.00,000.00%) commented, Â "Obtaining this Interconnection Agreement is a major milestone for Crownbutte's Gascoyne I project, and means that construction can begin as soon as project financing has been obtained."
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