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Posted on 05/15/2008 11:28:43 AM PDT by Uncledave
Dallas-based Mesa Power LLP, a company created by energy executive T. Boone Pickens, has placed an order with GE to purchase 667 wind turbines capable of generating 1,000 MW. GE plans to deliver the 1.5 MW wind turbines in 2010 and 2011.
The agreement represents the first phase of the four-phase Pampa Wind Project that will become the world's largest wind energy project, with an expected capacity of more than 4,000 MW. When all phases of the project are completed as projected in 2014, the wind farm will be five times as big as the nation's current largest wind power project, now producing 736 MW, according to Mesa Power.
The first phase of the project is expected to cost about $2 billion, and electricity will be online by early 2011. When complete, the Pampa Wind Project will cover some 400,000 acres in the Texas panhandle.
Mesa Power has nominated its wind turbine output to be delivered by Texas' Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZs) transmission lines. The CREZ transmission lines will benefit Texas electric users by delivering them cost-effective and reliable electricity generated by renewable energy power projects.
"We are making Pampa the wind capital of the world," says Pickens. "It's clear that landowners and local officials understand the economic benefits that this renewable energy can bring not only to landowners who are involved with the project, but also in revitalizing an area that has struggled in recent years."
Mesa Power has leased land in Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Roberts and Wheeler counties, where the landowners will receive annual royalties for the wind turbines operating on their property.
SOURCE: Mesa Power LLP
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If T-Boone thinks it’ll make money... it probably will.
too bad he’s not planting them in the cape-next to the Kennedy compound-yeah that’s all teddy needs is more navigational hazards while on a drinking binge on his boat.
I await the lawsuit over the thousands of birds killed and the people driven crazy by the noise.
Nothing quite screws up the scenery like hundreds of great big propellers all over the place.
Undoubtedly you have never been to Pampa. Born and raised in that area and the only thing of real interest is the big hole in the ground with the sign : “Insert enema here.”.
(ok I’m only kidding about the sign but northwest Texas and southwest Oklahoma could use something to break up the monotony since the tree died.)
The 80 year old is still one of the shrewdest operators. Good luck old man.
No way.
Boone is going to use construction to generate not electricity, but government grants and subsidies.
Wind power is vastly more expensive. In the EU they sell it. - at a loss.
These types of coming ECO theft are going to drain America of its wealth and lower our standards of living, all for nothing at all.
Exactly.
T. Boone became a believer when he saw what the wind generators of Florida Light and Power did for Sweetwater, TX. Wind generation brought that entire community back from the dead. There are many locales in the Plains wind corridor, which stretches from West Texas to South Dakota that are thrilled to be rejuvenated by the wind energy bonanza.
And there is one certain thing: West Texas will never run out of wind. It blows about 320 days a year. The only trick is how to managed the equipment when winds top 60 mph.
I recently spent a couple of weeks in Germany, and they were all over the place. It’s easy to get used to, particularly when you superimpose a picture of a crying OPEC Arab
“Boone is going to use construction to generate not electricity, but government grants and subsidies.”
....yep, it’s all about generating Federal tax credits....before the Enron collapse that company was the largest wind farm operator in the nation....they pioneered the concept of selling these like a commodity....we recently fought off a corporate wind farm here in the NC mountains....and guess who the biggest supporter of the project was??....the local university who came and testified in favor....what they were really in favor of was getting grants, publishing studies, and getting promoted for doing “wind research” and thus put the university on the map for wind energy expertise.
“The only trick is how to managed the equipment when winds top 60 mph.”
here’s one blowing up...WHOA!...that sucker is big.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbebLWYiQaU
here’s one catching fire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N4HQv-UyUo
Yeah, wind power could make money...but I doubt that its going to make enough energy to have an impact.
Wind power makes plenty of money, if you know where the money is and how to make it.
Pickens’ Panhandle wind project to order 667 turbines
AP via Houston Chronicle | May 15, 2008 | Associated Press
Posted on 05/15/2008 7:59:12 AM PDT by thackney
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Since the tree died LOL
The enema thing was funny too! ha
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In that area of Texas, they will be putting the windmills among the oil wells. Of course, most of the wells are dry now and the pumps are just rusting.
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