In a press release issued Thursday. Reliant Energy of Houston announced that it plans to build the world's largest single wind power installation on King Mountain in far West Texas - about 70 miles south of Odessa. Construction is to begin this fall. Wind power is considered to be renewable energy.
Wind turbines convert the kinetic energy in the wind into mechanical power.
Wind energy is considered to be a free, renewable resource, so no matter how much is used today, there will still be the same supply in the future. Wind energy is also a source of clean, non-polluting, electricity. Unlike conventional power plants, wind plants emit no air pollutants or greenhouse gases. In fact, in 1990, California's wind power plants offset the emission of more than 2.5 billion pounds of carbon dioxide, and 15 million pounds of other pollutants that would have otherwise been produced. It would take a forest of 90 million to 175 million trees to provide the same air quality.