(T. Boone) Pickens Wants to Build World's Largest Wind Farm (735 MW, Texas)

[jpak]

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3485828&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is planning to cash in on the wind energy boom by building the world's largest wind farm in West Texas.

The oil tycoon wants to install large wind turbines in parts of four Panhandle counties in a project that would produce up to 4,000 megawatts of electricity, Pickens spokesman Mike Boswell said Wednesday.

If Pickens' company, Mesa Power LP, does build the wind farm it would be the largest in the world, American Wind Energy Association spokeswoman Susan Williams Sloan said. It would generate more than five times the 735 megawatts produced at the present largest wind farm near Abilene.

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Pickens' proposal, which would cost as much as $6 billion, would fall just short of nearly doubling what Texas had at the end of 2006, when wind power totaled about 2,700 megawatts, she said.

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[partylessinOhio]

1. Just this morning I saw a Repug Senator spouting off on the Senate

floor how wind energy is not cost efficient and the dear lawmakers have to add tax incentives in the Energy Bill to get the industry to bite.

So, Billionaire T. Boone Pickens must be planning to cash in on some dandy taxcuts.

:mad:

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Just a coincidence, I'm sure. nt