Tenn company to build wind farm in Okla Panhandle

GUYMON, Okla. (AP) - A Tennessee company has been picked to build what it's touting as the first utility-scale wind farm in Texas County in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Signal Energy LLC President Ben Fischer says his Chattanooga, Tenn.-based firm will work with wind turbine manufacturer DeWind Co. on the project near Guymon. Signal Energy says the 370-megawatt project will produce enough electricity to power more than 24,000 homes.

The company says it will start construction by the middle of this year for the 80-megawatt first phase of the project. That phase is slated to start commercial operation in the first quarter of 2012. Signal Energy spokeswoman Cortney Piper says neither company involved wants do disclose the project's price.