Italian electricity utility Enel, acting through its subsidiary Enel North America, has inaugurated the new 250MW Smoky Hills wind farm in Kansas, US. The project can supply enough energy to meet the needs of 85,000 American households.

By Brian Burnes, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Jul. 16--Independence is poised to be powered in part by Kansas wind. The city is negotiating with a Lenexa firm, TradeWind Energy, to buy electricity generated at the firm's Smoky Hills wind turbine project, about 25 miles west of Salina.

Italian utility Enel, through its subsidiary Enel North America, has completed the construction of a 101MW wind farm in the US state of Kansas. The Smoky Hills Phase-I project will produce energy sufficient to power more than 37,000 average Kansas homes annually.

Enel, through its subsidiary Enel North America, has completed a wind farm in Texas, US, with investments by an affiliate of GE Energy Financial Services, the energy investing unit of GE.

Enel SpA, through its subsidiary Enel North America, Inc., announced today the completion of a wind farm in Texas with the tallest utility-scale wind turbines in the United States as well as investments by an affiliate of GE Energy Financial Services, the energy investing unit of GE (NYSE: GE).