DALLAS, Texas, May 16, 2008 (ENS) - Texas energy executive T. Boone Pickens has taken the first step towards building the world's largest windfarm in the Texas Panhandle. On Thursday Pickens announced that his company, Mesa Power, has ordered the first 667 wind turbines for the Pampa Wind Project. When complete in 2014, the windfarm is expected to generate more than 4,000 megawatts of electricity to feed into the Texas grid, enough to power 1.3 million homes. Pickens said he expects that first phase of the Pampa project will cost about $2 billion, and that the first electricity from the project will be on-line by early 2011.
When complete in 2014, the windfarm is expected to generate more than 4,000 megawatts of electricity to feed into the Texas grid, enough to power 1.3 million homes.
Pickens said he expects that first phase of the Pampa project will cost about $2 billion, and that the first electricity from the project will be on-line by early 2011.
