Wenn schon die Ölindustrie auf Windparks setzt... Pampa Wind Project From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mesa Power, a company controlled by former Texas oilman, T. Boone Pickens, planned to build the world's largest wind farm, called the Pampa Wind Project, as part of the Pickens Plan. The proposed 4,000 MW facility was to be located near Pampa, Texas, which is on the Texas Panhandle, and stretch to the east, spanning 400,000-acre (1,600 km2) in five counties. This would provide enough power for 1.5 million average homes. Mesa Power placed an order for the first shipment of 667 wind turbines from General Electric — 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] Lease payments for the land used by the turbines were expected to cost $65 million a year. The total cost of the project was estimated at $8–10 billion. By way of comparison, as of May 2008, the largest U.S. wind plant is the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center with a capacity of 736 MW. On July 17, 2008, the Texas Public Utilities Commission approved ratepayer funding of $4.98 billion in electric transmission lines to connect wind farms in the Texas Panhandle to the electric grid.[3] This implements the provisions of a 2005 Texas law designed to promote new wind energy projects.[4] On March 2, 2009, Mesa announced that it was proceeding with the first phase of the project, but had put off work on the later phases, and canceled 120 of 197 wind leases.[5] In July 2009, Pickens delayed (but did not cancel) the project, citing the lack of transmission capacity to the site and poor credit market. The Pampa Wind Farm project will be revived in 2013, when transmission lines are due to be completed in the area. In the meantime, Mesa will use the 667 contracted-for turbines to build several smaller wind farms; locations have not yet been chosen.[6][7] quelle:Wikipedia
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