EUSTIS – Representatives of TransCanada Corp. are holding an open house Wednesday on the proposed Kibby Wind Power project in northern Franklin County at the Stratton Community Building on Route 27.

The Canadian energy company is assessing the development of an approximately 130 megawatt wind power generating facility within two ridge lines of the Boundary Mountains in northern Franklin County, near the Canadian border and Somerset County line.

Besides the turbines, power collection lines and access roads, the project is expected to include an aboveground electric transmission line to connect the turbines to the existing transmission grid.

The company received approval from Maine Land Use Regulation Commission in 2005 to construct eight meteorological towers on ridges in Kibby and Skinner townships.

Company representatives previously said they wanted to determine the feasibility of a wind power project near the Canadian border prior to deciding whether to go forward with the $350 million wind power generation facility.

The open house to learn about the project is scheduled from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the Stratton Community Building next to the Eustis Town Office.

According to the Web site www.transcanada.com/kibbywindpower, TransCanada anticipates it will file key environmental applications this fall. Construction of the wind energy system would then be expected to begin in the fall of 2007, if necessary approvals are in place, with the project in operation by the fall of 2008.

Maine Mountain Power has a wind farm proposal before the Land Use Regulation Commission. That project is intended for northern Franklin County as well on the tops of Black Nubble and Redington Pond Range mountains in Redington Township, near Carrabassett Valley.