ScottishPower's competitive US energy business, PPM Energy, today announced that it has agreed to buy 200 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines from GE Energy for use in projects in late stage development expected to be built during calendar 2007.

"This turbine order for 2007 delivery, coupled with our turbine order for 2006 delivery, brings us to 500 MW of turbines from GE," said Terry Hudgens, PPM Energy CEO. "These orders, along with other options and other pending turbine arrangements, will enable PPM Energy to fulfill its business plans."

In August, PPM Energy completed construction ahead of schedule on its 75-megawatt Klondike II Wind Power Plant near Wasco, Ore.   Portland General Electric (PGE) has a 30-year agreement with PPM Energy to purchase all of Klondike II's wind capacity to serve PGE customers beginning in December 2005.

PPM Energy also expects to have four other wind power projects operational this year - the 100 MW Trimont project in Minnesota, the 150 MW Elk River project in Kansas, the 150 MW Shiloh project in California and the 198 MW Maple Ridge project in New York that PPM is building as a joint venture with Horizon Wind Energy, a unit of Goldman Sachs.

With 1,405 MW of wind energy in operation or under construction, PPM Energy is well on target toward its goal of at least 2,300 MW online by 2010.

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