Kansas
bp’s presence in Kansas in wind, solar and biogas reflects the company’s investments in the low carbon energies of the future.
bp Wind Energy owns and operates the Flat Ridge 1 and Flat Ridge 2 wind farms, both located west of Wichita. Spanning over 70,000 acres in Barber, Harper, Kingman and Sumner counties, these two farms have 314 turbines with the capacity to generate 514 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power about 167,000 average homes.
Our Remote Operations Center centrally monitors all bp-operated wind farms 24 hours a day, seven days a week with colleagues in the field to enhance performance, reliability and safety.
Constructed in 2012, Flat Ridge 2 is one of the largest and most technically complex wind farms in the US, and in 2024 the site reached a major safety milestone: three years of operation without a recordable injury. For reference, these three years included more than 3,700 turbine tower climbs by technicians, 90 major component changeouts, and 190,000 miles driven on the 60,000+ acre site.
Sunflower Electric – a not-for-profit utility – and bp’s 50:50 joint venture Lightsource bp have a 25-year contract for clean, renewable electricity to provide affordable, local energy for electric cooperative members across Kansas.
The agreement is for 27.5MW of large-scale offsite solar from the Johnson Corner solar project, the largest solar farm in Kansas. Johnson Corner consists of 75,000 solar panels installed across 144 acres of land in Stanton County, two miles from Johnson City. The site provides enough green electricity to power 5,165 homes across central and western Kansas every year.
In April 2024, Archaea officially started up its largest modular renewable natural gas (RNG) plant to date in Shawnee, just outside of Kansas City. The Shawnee plant can process 9,600 standard cubic feet of landfill gas per minute (scfm) into RNG – enough gas to heat around 38,000 homes annually, according to the EPA’s Landfill Gas Energy Benefits Calculator.