Westar Energy has placed a turbine delivery order with Siemens for the 280MW Western Plains wind power plant in Ford county, in the state of Kansas, US.

Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.

Located near Spearville, to around 100 miles west of Hutchinson, the wind farm will be equipped with 122 of Siemens SWT-2.3-108 wind turbines, and will be able to meet the power requirements of approximately 100,000 average households in the country.

Besides supplying the turbines, the German technology giant Siemens will be responsible for their installation support and services, that will include the Siemens’s advanced remote monitoring and diagnostics.

The firm is expected to start wind turbine installations for the project later this year, and commission those by early 2017.

To date, the firm has installed more than 5,000 wind turbines in the country, capable of producing clean power for more than 2.5 million US homes.