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Wind power has a long history in Texas. West Texas A&M University began wind energy research in 1970 and led to the formation of the Alternative Energy Institute (AEI) in 1977. AEI has been a major information resource about wind energy for Texas. [8] The first 80-meter tower was erected at Big Spring, Texas in 1999. [9]
The American Wind Power Center is a museum of wind power in Lubbock, Texas. Located on 28 acres (110,000 m 2 ) of city park land east of downtown Lubbock, the museum has more than 160 American style windmills on exhibition.
The Wildorado Wind Ranch, completed in 2007, is located on approximately 16,000 acres (6,500 ha) 25 miles (40 km) west of Amarillo, Texas, and consists of 161 MW of wind turbines (70 Siemens Mk II turbines each capable of generating 2.3 MW at peak wind speeds). These turbines have the capacity to meet the electricity demand of more than 50,000 ...
The Roscoe Wind Farm near Roscoe, Texas is one of the world's largest-capacity wind farms. With 627 wind turbines and a total installed capacity of 781.5 MW, owned and operated by RWE. [1] [2] At the time of its completion in 2009, it was the largest wind farm in the world, surpassing the nearby 735.5-megawatt Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center. [3]
It has 160 wind turbines, each rated at one megawatt (MW) and supplied by Mitsubishi, and was completed in December 2003. [1] The wind farm sells generated power on a long-term basis to a local power distributor, TXU Energy , to supply approximately 30,000 homes in Texas. 50% of the Brazos Wind Farm is owned by Shell Wind Energy, Inc .
Gulf Wind first generated electricity for the Texas power grid in November 2008, [4] with all turbines expected operational by September 2010. [5] Gulf Wind's former owner Babcock & Brown sold the development rights to Pattern Energy in 2009. [6] [4] In 2021 Pattern Energy replaced its Mitsubishi [7] 2.4 MW turbines with Siemens Gamesa SWT-2.3 ...
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The King Mountain Wind Farm is a 278.2 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Upton County, Texas, United States. 214 Siemens 1.3 MW wind turbines are sited in rows along the south-eastern and north-western edges of a mesa surrounded by deep ravines. The project was completed in December 2001.