Tri-State reaches deal for Eastern Colorado wind farm

BURLINGTON – Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc. said Wednesday that it reached an agreement with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC for a 150-megawatt wind farm near Burlington.

Westminster-based Tri-State will purchase generation from the facility under the 25-year agreement for the Carousel Wind Farm. Tri-State supplies power to Fort Collins-based Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association and 43 other cooperatives and public power districts throughout Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming.

“The way our model works, all of our generation at the utility level essentially goes into one pot and is dispatched as needed to our 44 member cooperatives,…