The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is taking comments through Nov. 25 on a proposed sales agreement with Idaho Winds LLC for a wind project six miles northwest of Glenns Ferry in Elmore County.

Meridian-based Idaho Winds LLC proposes to build a 21-megawatt wind facility that will be known as the Sawtooth Wind Project. Though its optimum capacity is 21 MW, under normal conditions it will not exceed 10 average megawatts on a monthly basis.

The wind project is scheduled to be in operation by Dec. 31, 2012.

Under the proposed 20-year contract, Idaho Power would pay the posted rate of $75.45 per megawatt-hour during months of normal demand in the first full-year of the contract, anticipated to be 2013. Under the agreement, the price gradually increases through the 20-year life of the contract.

The commission plans to handle the case under a modified procedure that uses written comments rather than conducting a hearing, unless customer comments can demonstrate a need for a public hearing.