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The first phase of the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Morrow County is now operational.
The commercial power generation project, a joint venture between Portland General Electric Company and a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, came online Dec. 8. According to a news release from PGE, the facility is âone of the first large-scale energy facilities in the United States to combine wind, solar and battery storage resources at a single location.â
A 300-megawatt wind farm with 120 turbines was the first phase of the project and is now generating power. The 50-megawatt solar farm and 30-megawatt battery storage are expected to be operational in 2021.
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Milton-Freewater, College Place and parts of Walla Walla County lost power Tuesday morning, with some places remaining without electricity for more than seven hours.
The blackout hit at about 10:50 a.m., caused by loss of transmission from a Bonneville Power Administration substation, according to Doug Case, manager of marketing and member services for Columbia Rural Electric Association.
The power failure hit Milton-Freewater, Umatilla Electric Cooperative and Columbia REA customers. Wind-powered generators were also knocked off of the grid, BPA spokesman Kevin Wingert said.
In Milton-Freewater, phone lines and internet also were down, according to message the city posted. The city of reported at 5:17 p.m. that power had been restored.