Roscoe Wind Farm in the News
October 22nd, 2009
News about Roscoe Wind Farm becoming the largest wind farm in the world is spreading all over the world. See what they are all saying.
“World’s Largest Wind Farm Churns in Texas” says CBS News regarding the Roscoe Wind Complex on October 2nd, 2009.
According to E.ON Climate and Renewables Roscoe Wind is generating enough energy to power 230,000 homes.
Cnet News says that according to EC&R, the project was a $1 billion dollar investment, took approximately 500 workers to complete and included negotiations with over 300 landowners.
The Associated Press called it “Massive Texas Wind Farm Operating” and continued with “The world’s largest wind farm officially got up and running Thursday, with all 627 towering wind turbines churning out electricity across 100,000 acres of West Texas farmland.”
Reuter’s says “E.ON Climate and Renewables said on Thursday it has built the world’s biggest wind farm by completing the final phase of its Roscoe, Texas wind farm, bringing the installed capacity to 781.5 megawatts.”
NPR talks about Roscoe- “It’s a growing Big Country symphony. Roscoe, a farm town with a population of just 1,300, is about to become Wind City U.S.A. — the locus of one of the biggest wind farms in the nation and the world. It’s a striking development in a state better known as the U.S. leader in emissions of global warming gases.”
