First Wind orders turbines

First Wind Tuesday purchased the turbines for its Palouse Wind wind farm currently under construction in northern Whitman County.

The company issued a news release Tuesday saying it had ordered 58 turbines from manufacturing firm Vestas for the Palouse Wind project. First Wind also purchased 19 turbines for its Bull Hill Wind project in Maine.

Palouse Wind has the county’s permission to install 65 turbines, but Ben Fairbanks, First Wind’s western regional business development manager, said the firm identified 58 locations as the best configuration for the Palouse Wind project.

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