It's official. Texas is now home to the world's largest wind farm. The 781.5 MW Roscoe wind complex has been completed and went live last night at 9:00 p.m.
Built by E.ON Climate & Renewables, the $1 billion farm covers 100,000 acres of land across four counties in West Texas and will be able to power more than 230,000 homes. The company erected the 627 turbines and made deals with 300 different land owners in just two years time.
E.ON is now moving on to even bigger things -- the London Array, which is set to be the largest offshore wind farm in the world with 630 MW being installed in just its first phase.
Roscoe will probably only hold the title as the world's largest for a short amount of time as ever larger wind farm plans pop up around the world, especially in China.
via AP
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written by Gadget Sleuth, October 03, 2009
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written by Roman, October 04, 2009
But unlike the donuts, worlds largest wind farm is something to be proud of.
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written by john, October 05, 2009
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written by Glenn, October 05, 2009
"A traditional coal power plant costs approximately $1,300 per kilowatt hour of generation capacity. Therefore, a 500 megawatt plant costs about $650 million"
http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/air/coalplants/
I guess it brings up another quesion. How much electricity will a nominal 780MW wind farm have produced over 12 months vs. a similarly sized coal plant?
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written by kurdt, October 23, 2009
Of courses, we're still developing wind, as even China has recognized the environment can't be trashed forever. Fixed and recurring costs will come down. The important point is that both wind and solar have dropped below the cost of nuclear, and will continue to drop as the price of coal increases.
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