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DAYTON - Portland General Electric Company announced Monday that it has agreed to purchase development rights for a por- tion of Phase II of the Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project in Columbia County from Puget Sound Energy. PGE is a utility based in Portland that serves more than 800,000 customers in Oregon.

In a press release issued Monday, PGE said the por- tion of the project they are taking over includes 116 wind turbine sites on land north of Dayton and west of Highway 12. It will use 2.3 megawatt turbines manu- factured by Siemens En- ergy Inc., for a total project "nameplate capac...