Press Releases
First Up! Knudson Turbine Commisioning Press Release
August 2011 – First Up! Knudson Wind Turbine near Thorp, WA started selling electricity to Puget Sound Energy in June of 2011. Subscribers will begin seeing their first credits on their power bills this month. About a third of these subscriptions are still available. Click the above link for the full press release.
Knudson Installation Press Release
March 22, 2011 First Up! Knudson Wind Turbine installation is completed near Thorp, WA. This is the first community-supported wind project in eastern Washington, and was nearly two years in the making. The turbine is expected to start producing power in April. (Look closely at the photo and see the turbines of Kittitas Valley Wind Farm in the background).
DR Article Knudson Ground Breaking Ceremony
September 2010 – First Up! Knudson Ground Breaking Ceremony
Cascade Community Wind owner Terry Meyer and employees, Senators Janea Holmquist and Phil Rockefeller, officials from Puget Sound Energy and US Department of Agriculture, subscribers, investors and community members were nearly blown off their feet by a 22-mile an hour breeze during the ground breaking ceremony at Del Knudson’s ranchette in Thorp, WA, on September 9. (Click on above link for entire story).
August 2010 – SEP Award Press Release
Cascade Community Wind Company (CCWC), a Washington State limited liability company, has been awarded a $1,000,000 grant and loan from the Washington State Energy Program. This award will be used to help CCWC install up to eight community wind turbines before December 2011. (Click on above link for entire text).
July 2010 Knudson REAP Grant Press Release PDF
July 2010 – Knudson REAP Award Press Release
Cascade Community Wind Company LLC (CCWC), based in Bellingham, announces that it has received a grant of $47,975 from the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), for the construction of a 100 kW community wind turbine. The turbine is a Vestas V19, 100kW turbine which has a 60-foot diameter rotor, is on an 80-foot monopole tower and will produce enough power for about 45 energy efficient homes (around 200,000 kWh a year). The turbine is expected to cost $250,000 to install. (Click on above link for entire text).
CCWC PPA Press Release Feb 2010 PDF
February 2010 – CCWC PPA PRESS RELEASE
Cascade Community Wind Company LLC (CCWC), based in Bellingham, announces that it has received power purchase agreements from Puget Sound Energy (PSE) for its first eight communitysupported wind turbines. These eight projects, planned to go up in the next two years, should produce about $9.5 million worth of electricity over the next 10 years, or enough to power 2,000 energy efficient homes. Fully half this amount will be going to subscribers to the projects. (Click on above link for entire text).
