AES celebrates the completion of the Delta Wind Farm in Tunica County, Mississippi

AES Corporation’s (NYSE: AES) U.S. renewable energy division announced it will host a ribbon-cutting event Tuesday, June 18, 2024IN Tunica County, Mississippito celebrate the completion of the state’s first utility-scale wind farm, AES’ Delta Wind design.

The celebrations will start at 11:00 CST on Tunica Park Riverfront Park and Museum facility located at ul 1 River Park Drive IN Tunica Resorts, Mississippi. Local and regional media are invited and encouraged to attend this event where they will be able to interview AES leaders and local project stakeholders.

The participants will be representatives of the state, Tunica County project management and stakeholders, including Amazon, the buyer of energy from the Delta Wind plant. The event will include a short program followed by a bus tour of the Delta Wind site, which is located approximately 30 minutes from the event venue, and the tour will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Construction of the 184 MW Delta Wind project began in 2023, and the facility was commissioned in April 2024. The Delta Wind project includes 41 Vestas wind turbines that rise to a total peak height of 200 meters and produce enough renewable energy to power the equivalent of 80,000 Mississippi houses.

“The AES Delta Wind project marks a historic milestone as the first utility-scale wind energy project in Mississippi,” he said Woody Rubin, chief development officer of the American renewable energy company AES. “This pioneering project provides Amazon with clean and reliable energy to power facilities and operations in the region, while reducing carbon emissions. The project also provides an important economic boost to local communities, supporting over 300 jobs during peak construction and generating tens of millions of dollars in new tax revenue to support local schools, infrastructure and services during Tunica County throughout the duration of the project.”

” Delta Wind The project is a key part of our efforts to build a sustainable economy on Mississippi Delta it works for everyone,” said Dr. Billy WillisAdministrator for Tunica County. “Change is often difficult, but we are making history here with the Delta Wind project and we believe this project can be a catalyst for accelerating renewable energy and economic development throughout the South.”

The Delta Wind project, pioneered and initially developed by Steelhead Americas, the North American development arm of Vestas, and subsequently acquired by AES, is located on 14,000 acres of private farmland in Tunica County. The project has been carefully designed in partnership with local landowners as a “dual-use” project, ensuring the continuation of current agricultural land use – growing rice, soybeans, corn and wheat – under the turbines.