US energy company Pacificorp plans to add 7.2GW of new wind capacity by the end of 2031 and 9.1GW of new wind resources by 2042.
The Portland-based energy company’s long-term resource plan calls for a near-quadrupling of its wind and solar resources to a total of 20GW by 2032, in addition to 7.4GW of energy storage by 2029.
It does not select specific projects in its integrated resource plan (IRP) – which it has already filed with regulators – only which types of energy resource it is targeting, a spokesperson said. Wind or solar projects that fulfil the IRP could have a power purchase agreement with a PacifiCorp-owned utility, a build-transfer agreement, or they could be built by PacifiCorp, he added.
PacifiCorp owns two utilities, Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power. They serve customers from the far north of California to Wyoming and northwards to Washington state.
The company’s 20-year IRP includes 1.8GW of wind to come online in 2024-25, including the purchase and repowering of the 50MW Rock River I and 43MW Foote Creek II-IV projects in Wyoming.
PacifiCorp is planning far more wind than it did two years ago. Starting in around 2032, PacificCorp’s cumulative megawatts of new wind will be around twice or more than what had been planned in its 2021 resource plan. It issues the plans every two years.
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