NextEra Energy Resources is planning for the Eight Point Wind Energy Center to have a maximum generating capability of 101.8 megawatts (MW) from an estimated 31 wind turbines located on land leased from owners of private property located in the Towns of Greenwood and West Union in Steuben County, New York.
Project facilities will include commercial-scale wind turbines, access roads, buried and overhead electric collection lines, a project collection substation, meteorological towers, an operation and maintenance building, and electrical interconnection facilities. NextEra Energy Resources anticipates the interconnection facilities will include a 115-kV switchyard built adjacent to NYSEG’s 115-kV Bennett Substation, and an overhead 115-kV interconnection line. Subject to Article 10, the outreach activities described in the Public Involvement Plan will address the wind energy facility.
Project facilities will include commercial-scale wind turbines, access roads, buried and overhead electric collection lines, a project collection substation, meteorological towers, an operation and maintenance building, and electrical interconnection facilities. NextEra Energy Resources anticipates the interconnection facilities will include a 115-kV switchyard built adjacent to NYSEG’s 115-kV Bennett Substation, and an overhead 115-kV interconnection line.
Subject to Article 10, the outreach activities described in the Public Involvement Plan will address the wind energy facility.
The transmission line interconnecting the Eight Point Wind Energy Center to the substation in Hornellsville falls within the Article VII regulations.
Article VII is separate from the Article 10 process which applies to the generation portion of the Eight Point Wind Energy Center. The two review processes will run in parallel.
Once operational, the project is estimated to provide more than $40 million in revenue to local governments to support schools, infrastructure and vital services such as fire departments.
Payments to landowners are estimated to be $25 million over the 30-year expected life of the project.
Project Area and Study Area
NextEra Energy Resources has issued both a Project Area map and a Study Area map. These areas are based on preliminary estimates of where facilities could be located and can be found on the Maps page.
- The Project Area is comprised of the locations being evaluated for placement of permanent project facilities. The Project Area is approximately rectangular and includes 15,295 acres of land. None of the Project Area is inside State Forest areas.
- Consistent with 16 NYCRR § 1000.2(ar), the Study Area is all areas within at least 5 miles of the current planned location of project generating facility components, interconnections and related facilities and alternative location sites and includes approximately 145,663 acres of land.
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