EV Road Trip Day 58

The final stage of the Slog West (Salina, KS, to Denver, CO) has reached its terminal after a lot of fog and rain through central Kansas. Twenty miles west of Salina on Interstate 70, we came upon the Smoky Hills Wind Farm, “the largest wind farm in Kansas and more than 100 landowners are participating in the project. Including the land used for roads, turbine foundations and maintenance buildings, less than two percent of the 20,000 acres covered by the wind farm will be removed from agricultural service.

The first two phases of the Smoky Hill Wind Farm have been completed and at peak production the wind farm can generate 250 MW of electricity. The electricity is produced by 140,000 pound Vests V80 1.8-megawatt wind turbines (155 GE 1.5 MW wind turbines).

The energy is being delivered to five local utilities: Sunflower Electric Power Corporation, Midwest Energy, the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities, the City of Independence, Missouri and the City of Springfield, Missouri.

Smoky Hills Wind Farm is operated by Enel North America, a division of Enel - Italy's largest power company, and Europe's second biggest utility.”

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We deposited the first of our Colorado Tesla caches at Limon, soon after which they got hit with a gully washer.

We arrived in Denver at 4:00 PM local time and spent the night with my niece, her family, and Cooper the dog.The final stage of the Slog West (Salina, KS, to Denver, CO) has reached its terminal after a lot of fog and rain through central Kansas. Twenty miles west of Salina on Interstate 70, we came upon the Smoky Hills Wind Farm, “the largest wind farm in Kansas and more than 100 landowners are participating in the project. Including the land used for roads, turbine foundations and maintenance buildings, less than two percent of the 20,000 acres covered by the wind farm will be removed from agricultural service.

The first two phases of the Smoky Hill Wind Farm have been completed and at peak production the wind farm can generate 250 MW of electricity. The electricity is produced by 140,000 pound Vests V80 1.8-megawatt wind turbines (155 GE 1.5 MW wind turbines).

The energy is being delivered to five local utilities: Sunflower Electric Power Corporation, Midwest Energy, the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities, the City of Independence, Missouri and the City of Springfield, Missouri.

Smoky Hills Wind Farm is operated by Enel North America, a division of Enel - Italy's largest power company, and Europe's second biggest utility.”

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We deposited the first of our Colorado Tesla caches at Limon, soon after which they got hit with a gully washer.

We arrived in Denver at 4:00 PM local time and spent the night with my niece, her family, and Cooper the dog.

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