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Dry Lake Wind Power Project in Navajo County is Arizona's first utility-scale wind farm. Phase 1 consists of 30 Suzlon 2.1 MW wind turbines , for a total nameplate capacity of 63 MW. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Iberdrola Renewables built the wind farm in 2009 for $100 million, [ 2 ] and sells the output to Salt River Project .
The Dry Lake Wind Power Project in Navajo County is the first utility-scale wind farm in the U.S. state of Arizona. Starting in 2009, it was constructed in two phases having a total generating capacity of 128.1 megawatts (MW), and is selling the electricity to the Salt River Power District (SRP).
2023-2024: Mesa Repower and Alta Mesa Repower combined to replace 620 aging wind turbine in the hills west of the Whitewater River with thirteen new ones. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] All of these 2020-era repowering efforts installed Vestas V112 or V117 wind turbines, producing between 3.0 and 4.3 MW, the largest blade reaching 492 feet above the ground.
When completed, this will be the largest wind project in the western hemisphere. [2] The wind project is paired with SunZia Transmission, a 550-mile 3-gigawatt HVDC transmission line (890 km) to carry the power to Arizona and California. SunZia Wind and Transmission are owned by the privately held American company Pattern Energy. The project ...
Mesa Power LP, a company controlled by former Texas oilman, T. Boone Pickens, planned to build the world's largest wind farm, called the Pampa Wind Project, as part of the Pickens Plan. The proposed 4,000 MW facility was to be located near Pampa, Texas , which is on the Texas Panhandle , and stretch to the east, spanning 400,000-acre (160,000 ...
The Sherbino Mesa Wind Farm is located in Pecos County in west Texas. The first 150 megawatts (MW) of the project, which has a potential capacity of 750 MW, is in operation. Phase I utilizes 50 Vestas V-90 Mk.5 wind turbine generators, each with a rated capacity of 3 MW. BP will operate phase I of the project. [1]
Power Company of Wyoming (PCW) began planning around 2005 for approximately 1,000 wind turbines on lands owned by The Overland Trail Ranch, [6] located south of Rawlins, Wyoming, in Carbon County, a former coal mining area. [7] In 2007, PCW installed 10 test turbines to test and verify the wind resources in the proposed area. [8]
The wind farm consists of 100 GE wind turbines each rated at 1.5 megawatts. American Electric Power owns the Trent Wind Farm and TXU Energy purchases the electricity produced under a long-term agreement. [1] The Trent Wind Farm began commercial operation in 2001, when it was the fourth largest wind farm operating in the United States. [2]