Pampa Wind Project

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Boone Pickens, a former Texas oilman, is planning to build the world's largest wind farm, called the Pampa Wind Project. The proposed 4,000 MW facility will be located near Pampa, Texas, which is on the Texas Panhandle, and will stretch to the east, spanning five counties. Mesa Power has placed an order for the first shipment of wind turbines—the world's largest wind turbine order for a single location— and this will provide 1,000 MW of wind power capacity for the $2 billion first phase of the project, which should be online by 2011.^[1][2]

As of May 2008, the largest U.S. wind plant is the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center with a capacity of 736 MW.

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1. ^ Mesa Power places world’s largest single-site wind turbine purchase order
2. ^ Pickens Bets $2 Billion on Wind Power Project