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OPPD Enters New Clean Capacity Collaboration With Google, NextEra Energy Resources

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Omaha Public Power District has entered into a new clean capacity collaboration with Google and NextEra Energy Resources LLC, the Nebraska public power utility said on May 14.

The collaboration will allow OPPD to access 600 megawatts of wind capacity from NextEra Energy’s High Banks Wind Energy Center.

The High Banks Wind Energy Center, which is owned and operated by a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, has been online since December of 2023 as a part of Google’s long term clean energy portfolio.

Google is now supplying this capacity resource to OPPD and will retain the energy and environmental attributes from the project to support its 24/7 carbon-free energy goals.

“Capacity contracts are important tools that allow electric utilities like OPPD to meet regulatory requirements that help ensure utilities have adequate resources to deliver power to customers,” the utility noted. “This project will help OPPD make significant strides in ensuring reliability as its service area experiences unprecedented growth,” it said.