The private advocacy arm of Colorado State University has finalized a deal to build a huge wind-power farm that will produce more energy than the Fort Collins campus consumes, university officials have announced.

The CSU Green Power Project is to be built by a private company on an 11,000-acre university-owned ranch near the Wyoming border, and it will feature at least 25 wind turbines. It is projected to produce 65 to 200 megawatts, far more than the 16 megawatts Colorado State currently uses at peak demand.

University officials plan to sell the extra power and hope to generate up to $30-million in revenue over the course of the 25-year project. —Paul Fain