The project, scheduled to be completed in July 2001, is located in Pecos County, south of Odessa. The plant will consist of 160 wind turbines of 1.3 MW each. Project announcements have cascaded since then, with a total of close to 1000 MW of new wind energy generating capacity being proposed for completion by the end of 2001. The projects are concentrated in Western Texas, where the best of the state's wind resource is located. The new wind energy investments in Texas are drawing attention, and wind energy is a hot topic for the local papers.
Wind is free.
It's not going to kill us. The county commissioner has declared that the projects are 'probably one of the best things to happen to agriculture in Pecos County. Delaware Mountain wind project. The LCRA press release on their latest wind project noted with pride how the cost from their wind project would actually be cheaper than the cost of electricity from a new gas project. The surge in investments puts Texas on track to becoming the state with the second-largest installed wind energy generating capacity by the end of 2001.