May 15, 2008
Boone Pickens Project Buys 667 GE Wind Turbines
“We have had a great response to this project”
A renewable energy company founded by billionaire T. Boone Pickens said Thursday it's buying 667 wind turbines from General Electric Co. to start what it expects will be the world's largest wind energy project.
Mesa Power says the Pampa Wind Project will be in the Texas panhandle and will use GE turbines that can each produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity.
The project's $2 billion first phase -- one of four planned -- will make enough to power more than 300,000 average U.S. homes. When completed in 2014, it will become the world's largest wind energy project, with more than 4,000 megawatts of electricity, enough for 1.3 million homes, Mesa Power said. Read more
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