NRG Energy sees that long-term contracted wind capacity as “highly consistentwith the NRG Yield asset profile, in quality, counter-party credit and averagecontract duration”, chief financial officer Kirk Andrews told analysts on aconference call this week.

Edison Mission owns 30 wind projects in 11 states totaling about 1.73GW,ranking eighth on 1 January in market share in the US, according to theAmerican Wind Energy Association.