PSO
will
buy
98.9MW
from
a
wind
farm
to
be
built
in
Elk
City
by
NextEra
Energy
Resource
and
99MW
from
Horizon
Wind
Energy's
Blue
Canyon
wind
farm
near
Lawton.
Both
facilities
are
in
western
Oklahoma.
While
terms
of
the
20-year
contracts
are
confidential,
the
utility
said
they
will
not
result
in
higher
prices
for
customers.
The
proposed
purchase
agreements
have
been
presented
to
the
Oklahoma
Corporation
Commission
for
approval.
PSO,
a
subsidiary
of
American
Electric
Power,
currently
buys
392.7
megawatts
of
wind
energy
from
wind
farms
around
the
state.
``Wind
energy
is
an
increasingly…