Fowler Ridge Wind Farm (Image credit: vaxomatic on Flickr)

BP Wind Energy and Dominion announced that phase one of the Fowler Ridge Wind Farm in Benton County, Indiana, is now fully operational. This means Indiana just got an additional 400 MW of clean renewable energy, enough to power about 120,000 households. BP and Dominion are partners for a portion of about 300 MW of the total installed capacity so far. The two companies could increase the total installed capacity to about 750 MW in the future.

Construction of Phase 1 began back in 2008, and utilizes 182 Vestas 1.65 MW wind turbines and 40 Clipper 2.5 MW turbines. BP Wind Energy is the facility operator.

This project, and the Meadow Lake Wind Farm project bring a total of about 600 MW of active wind power capacity at the present time. Since both projects have additional phases, Indiana could be looking at an additional 950 MW of wind power in the future (350 from Fowler Ridge and 600 the Meadow Lake).