October 19, 2006
FPL Energy Dedicates World's Largest Wind Farm
Click here for the news releaseSnyder, Texas Wind Farm Purchased.
The Snyder Wind Farm will start construction in 2007.
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September 8, 2006
Horse Hollow Wind Farm south and west of Abilene, Texas is now the largest wind
farm in the world.
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July
26, 2006
Construction is underway on Lone Star Wind Farm being built by Horizon Wind
Energy in Shackelford County near Albany, Texas.
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July 26, 2006
Texas is now ahead of California and leads the Western Hemisphere in
electrical power generation from the wind according to published reports.
Texas Overtakes California as Top US Producer of Wind
Energy - Business Times July 26, 2006
Winds Of Change -
Fort Worth TX Star-Telegram August 20, 2006
Most of the construction of wind farms has taken place in
the Abilene area as we are fast become one of the world's largest electrical
generating centers from wind power. Other farms in the region have sprouted up near
Lubbock, near Big Spring and in Scurry County Texas as well.
Photos of the Horse Hollow
wind turbines June 2006-Construction is finishing up on the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center multi
project on Highway 277 about 15 miles south of Abilene that will be the country's 2nd largest
wind site, with 147 1.5 megawatt wind turbines on a 22,500 acres. This site
is owned by
FPL Energy. This is their second site in Taylor county after the
firm began operation of the 114-megawat Callahan Divide Wind Energy Center
12 miles southwest of Abilene. Both sites are along U.S. Highway 277 South.
Both should be fully on line by the end of the year.
Department of Defense officials announced earlier this year that
Dyess Air Force Base here in Abilene was the first DOD facility buying
all of its electrical energy from the wind farms. It is one of a handful of
bases in the country powered in some manner by renewable energy. In the next
couple of years Dyess will also be the site for a trash to energy plant
which will burn all waste from the base which currently goes to an area
landfill. That project involves Seimens Building Technologies corporation
which will be building the plant. Once it's operational the power generating
plant will also burn about a third of the annual municipal waste generated
by the City of Abilene.
August 2006- Construction is going hot and heavy in Callahan County near
the city of Albany where a new wind project is well underway. Steel starting
going up on the turbine towers the week of July 31st, with crews still
working on roadways and electrical installations as well. The towers are
located on either side of Highway 351 about 12 miles south of Albany.
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