The Fowler Ridge Wind Farm is a

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in Benton County, Indiana, near the city of Fowler, IN about northwest of

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and northwest of Indianapolis. Fowler Ridge was originally developed in 2005 and 2006 by Orion Energy, LLC (Oakland, CA) and Vision Energy, LLC (Cincinnati, OH) and later sold in 2007 to BP and

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. The project was constructed beginning in 2008 in two phases and has a

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of 600 MW. Fowler Ridge was the second utility-scale wind power plant in Indiana, after the 130.5 MW Goodland I Wind Farm (also in Benton County and was also developed by Orion Energy, LLC (Oakland, CA) and Vision Energy, LLC (Cincinnati, OH)). The Benton County Wind Farm came online in 2008. Some of the wind turbines are visible from

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, the main highway through the County. They are also visible along

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in the Boswell area. Other wind farms developed by Orion and Vision include the Camp Grove Wind Farm and the Benton County Wind Farm.

Phase one

The first phase of the project is online and consists of 222

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, 182

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V82-1.65 MW turbines and 40 Clipper C-96 2.5 MW turbines, with a nameplate capacity of 400 MW.Wind farms generating money for Indiana community
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Phase two

Phase two consists of 133 GE 1.5 MW wind turbines with a total nameplate capacity of 200 MW. Construction began in early 2009 and phase two became operational in early 2010.

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Phase one

Phase two

Electricity production

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