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E.ON Climate and Renewables says its new Texas wind farm is world’s largest

October 1st, 2009 · No Comments

From Green Right Now Reports

[caption id="attachment_5423" align="alignright" width="270" caption="The Roscoe, Texas, wind farm (Photo: E.ON Climate & Renewables)"]The Roscoe, Texas, wind farm (Photo: E.ON Climate & Renewables)[/caption]

Global energy company E.ON Climate and Renewables today announced the completion of what it says is the world’s largest wind farm near Roscoe, Texas. The new wind complex has an installed capacity of 781.5 megawatts (MW), which can generate enough electricity to power more than 230,000 homes.

The project area spans parts of four Texas counties and covers almost 100,000 acres — an area several times the size of Manhattan. The wind farm has a total of 627 wind turbines manufactured by Mitsubishi, General Electric and Siemens.

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