Tri Global Energy has announced the sale of an Illinois wind energy project, Woodford Wind Energy, to Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The Illinois wind project, which is the first wind project developed and sold by Tri Global Energy in Illinois, has applied for two separate phases of interconnection – each phase for up to 400MW of capacity -- in the PJM system.
Comprised of 31,000 leased acres in the Central Illinois county of Woodford, USA, involving over 300 land and homeowners, Woodford Wind Energy will be owned and operated by CIP's U.S. subsidiary, Woodford Wind, U.S. Construction of the initial phase of the wind energy project is targeted to begin in January 2021 with the project's commercial operations expected to commence by the end of the year.