Avangrid, Statkraft sign second virtual power purchase agreement

Avangrid and Statkraft announced the signing of a short-term Virtual Power Purchase Agreement for energy from Avangrid’s 35 MW Casselman wind farm in Pennsylvania. This marks the second such deal between the two companies within the past nine months as they strengthen their growing relationship in the United States. Earlier this year, Avangrid and Statkraft announced a short-term VPPA for Avangrid’s 300 MW Streator Cayuga Ridge South wind farm in Illinois. Statkraft and Iberdrola, S.A., Avangrid’s parent company, have a Power Purchase Agreement in place for energy produced at Iberdrola’s Korytnica II wind farm in Poland. The Casselman wind project reached commercial operation in 2007 and is located about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, near the towns of Meyersdale and Rockwood. The plant’s 23 wind turbines, with a combined capacity of 35 MW, are located on top of and near a rehabilitated surface mine, and bring clean energy jobs to the region.