and California, and another 100 MW in the Midwest including the recently announced Flying Cloud $50 million 44 MW Project in lowa, being developed with Clipper Windpower, and the 50 MW MoraineWind Project in Minnesota. US IPPs Stay At Home While lberdrola and ScottishPower seek to extend their RE strategies global, FPL Energy, the world's largest wind power generator, is concentrating on the U.S. market for now, content to consolidate its leadership domestically. FPL Energy had a total generation base of 5,574 MW at YE 2001. FPL has emerged as the largest wind farm operator in the U.S., and rivals lberdrola's RE portfolio on a global basis, FPL Energy had 1,642.6 MW of net wind capacity in 2001, with 758 MW additional capacity under development. FPL continues aggressively to build its wind energy base, both through project development and acquisition of existing projects. FPL announced in October 2002 the development of 598 MW of new wind capacity in New Mexico, California, lowa, West Virginia, and the Dakotas. Earlier in 2002 FPL acquired 123 MW of existing wind assets in Texas and Pennsylvania from National Wind Power. Wind is FPL's chief renewable play, but the company has developed abroad portfolio in bioenergy, solar and small hydro. FPL is co-owner of two 80 MW gridconnected solar thermal power plants in California, and a 40% stakeholder in an 80 MW wood waste biomass planı. Landfill and coal waste activities account for another 24 MW, and hydro assets amount to 373 MW of net generation capacity. At this point FPL is not active in international markets, and with the current economic environment that is not likely to change soon. FPL is content to maintain its lead in U.S. wind energy development for now. Eventually we expect the company to look to make use of its experience base overseas, either alone or in partnership with others. MAKALE/ ARTICLE The other significant RE IPPs in the U.S. have built portfolios largely exclusive of wind. Caithness, Calpine and CalEnergy, a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy, have built renewables portfolio around geothermal capacity. Caithness claims the most diversified portfolio, with significant investments in solar, wind and cogeneration. Calpine is a pure play IPP with geothermal and gas-turbine technology. Calenergy operates a large amount of geothermal (890 MW in the US and Philippines) and cogenaration (540 MW) capacity. Cal's parent MidAmerican, a vertically integrated utility, recently announced plans to build a $323 million, 310 MW wind projeci in lowa, with the first turbines online in 2004 and Project completion in 2006. RE Niche Strategies Europe's smaller utilities are adopting renewable strategies to differentiate themselves as environmentally responsible utilities. While the majors battle over the global scraps left by retrenching TXU and AES, these smaller utilities are expanding their renewables portfolios horizontally to build regional and international scope. A good example is Nuon, SA, a small Dutch utility with activities in energy and water, with 2.7 million customers and 2001 sales of 4.5bn Euros. Nuon is building a renewable portfolio that includes wind, solar, bioenergy and cogeneration with the expectation of meeting a 10% renewable target in 201 O, ten years ahead of the government mandated deadline. in first half 2002, Nuon had increased its household customer base of "green" electricity to 325,000 households, up from 81,000 at year-end 2000 and 220,000 at year end 2001. in its 2001 annual report Nuon states that it "aims to be one of the world's five largest organizations in the production of renewable electrical energy." Nuon's RE portfolio reached 381.8 MW at year-end 2001, including 337.6 MW of wind. By 2005 the company expects to have 3,000 MW of renewable energy onENERJi & KOJENERASYON DÜNYASI 65
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