Oklahoma Utility Buys 600 MW of Wind Power to 'Provide Substantial Savings to Our Customers'

On Thursday, the 100-year-old Public Service Company of Oklahoma signed an agreement to buy 600 megawatts of power from wind farms being developed in the northwestern part of the state. Currently there is just one large-scale wind farm in the Panhandle, and in almost two years there will be three more.

Wind resources in Oklahoma rank it 9th in the nation, and the state is starting to take advantage of this resource, now ranked 6th in terms of wind power generation as of 2012. That's 3,130 megawatts, and this new agreement will push the state's total generation closer to 4,000 megawatts.

Oklahoma Utility Buys 600 MW of Wind Power to 'Provide Substantial Savings to Our Customers'