Kansas City Power & Light gets conditional use permit for Spearville wind farm - Kansas City Business Journal:

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wind farm’s developer received permission from the to turn over its conditionalp use permit forthe project’s second phase to Ed administrator of the Ford Countu Commission, said Wednesday that the commission voted 3-0 on Mondayu to allow to transfer the permit for the project’a second phase to KCP&L, a subsidiary of Kansas City-basex (NYSE: GXP). The project has 67 turbines in operation, generatinvg 100.5 megawatts of electricity. That constitutess the project’s first The project’s second phase has approval to generate as muchas 154.5 megawatts of electricity. The second phasew has 32 turbines on the ground but notyet operational.
KCP&L boughtg the 32 wind turbines and the land they sit on from enXcpoin February, KCP&L spokeswoman Katie McDonald said. KCP&L hasn’t committedr to a project at the Spearville wind she said, but gettinfg the permit transferred for the second phase was a necessary step to pursuingh a project there if KCP&Lp chooses to do so. KCP&L has an agreement with the to producs 100 megawatts of alternative energyy by the endof 2010, McDonaldc said. That requirement is part of a broadedr agreement by the Sierra Club regarding emissions associatesdwith KCP&L’s 850-megawatt coal-fired Iatan 2 power plant near Mo.
KCP&L agreed to add 400 megawatts of wind powed and 300 megawatts ofadditional energy-efficiency controlsa by 2012. The project’s third phase has approval for anadditional 204.5 megawattd of electricity generation, for a total of 459.5