{"id":329247,"date":"2010-02-16T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:46:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:46:01","slug":"ge-eyes-165m-investment-in-oklahoma-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/329247","title":{"rendered":"GE Eyes $165M Investment in Oklahoma Wind Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/wind.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wind\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.renewbl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/blue-canyon-wind-farm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"101\" \/>CPV Renewable Energy Company has scored a $65 million equity investment from GE Energy Financial Services to support the construction of the $319 million, 152 megawatts Keenan II wind farm in Oklahoma. The project is scheduled for completion by year\u2019s end and GE\u2019s energy financing unit could invest an additional\u00a0 $100 million in the project once it goes live.  <span id=\"more-6344\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the financing GE Energy Financial Services is getting the wind farm&#8217;s production tax credits, the company said in a release issued today.<\/p>\n<p>CPV is funding the rest of the project with equity and a $212 million\u00a0project finance loan arranged by The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and Union Bank, formerly known as the Union Bank of California. Also funding the project are Key Bank, Helaba, LBBW, Natixis and Rabo Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Keenan II is backed by\u00a0a 20-year power purchase agreement with Oklahoma Gas &amp; Electric Company.<\/p>\n<p>Wind comprises nearly 80 percent of GE Energy Financial Services\u2019 renewable energy portfolio. The portfolio includes equity investments in 47 wind farms with a total capacity to produce 6 gigawatts of electricity, as well as loans to 36 wind farms totaling 1.3 gigawatts.<\/p>\n<p>Last year GE Energy Financial Services, said\u00a0it was on track to meet its goal <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/12\/ge-on-track-to-invest-6bn-in-renewables-by-2010\/\" >of having $6 billion invested in renewable energy<\/a> by the end of 2010. Last December\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/12\/ge-invests-228m-in-wind-generation-portfolio-owned-by-horizon-wind\/\" >it invested $228 million<\/a> in a string of wind-generated power plants owned and operated by Horizon Wind Energy, the North American unit of Portugal\u2019s EPD Renewables.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/mOm2P1ydNRo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPV Renewable Energy Company has scored a $65 million equity investment from GE Energy Financial Services to support the construction of the $319 million, 152 megawatts Keenan II wind farm in Oklahoma. The project is scheduled for completion by year\u2019s end and GE\u2019s energy financing unit could invest an additional\u00a0 $100 million in the project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}