VICI, Okla. – Evergy, Inc., a U.S.-based power supplier, intends to buy the 199-megawatt Persimmon Creek Wind Farm in western Oklahoma from Scout Clean Energy and Elawan Energy for approximately $250 million.
Persimmon began commercial operation in 2018 with 80 General Electric turbines constructed across 17,000 acres in Dewey, Ellis and Woodward counties. The renewable energy generated from Persimmon will serve customers in Evergy’s Missouri West service area.
“The Persimmon Creek Wind Farm has been a reliable source of renewable energy over the last four years, making it a solid investment for Scout,” said Michael Rucker, Scout’s founder and CEO.
“Evergy continues to tap into the Midwest’s affordable, renewable energy resources to serve our customers,” said David Campbell, Evergy president and CEO. “Expanding our portfolio of owned renewable generation positions us to ensure customers receive the long-term benefits of these assets.”
The Persimmon Creek sale is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023 and remains subject to closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.
Evergy is a utility company with 1.6 million customers in Kansas and Missouri.
The Kansas City-based company sources approximately half its power from renewable sources. Over the next decade the company intends to install more than 3.5 gigawatts of clean energy capacity and retire more than 1.9 gigawatts of coal-based fossil generation, Campbell said. Evergy also has set a goal to reduce its carbon emissions by 70% by 2030 from their 2005 levels, and aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2045.
Colorado-based Scout Clean Energy is a renewable energy developer-owner-operator, and its joint venture partner Elawan Energy is a global operator in the renewable energy industry.