World Wind Watch | Green Energy News

July 20, 2003 – Vol.8 No.17

WORLD WIND WATCH.

Just announced and to be supplying power to the grid by the end of the year will be the Green Mountain Energy Wind Farm at Brazos. With a capacity of 160 megawatts the facility will be the largest wind farm owned and operated by Shell WindEnergy which is 50-50 partnering with Padoma Wind Power on the project. Brazos, with 160 one-megawatt Mitsubishi MWT 1000-A turbines, will be located 90 miles southeast of Lubbock.

Developers on the project are Cielo Wind Power and Orion Energy. TXU Energy will purchase all the electricity from Brazos that will be sold through green power retailer Green Mountain Energy.

Shell WindEnergy has also bought a 40-percent stake in the 99-megawatt Muela Wind Park in northeast Spain from TXU European operations.

Shell now has 392 megawatts capacity in its U.S. wind portfolio. Visit Shell WindEnergy at http://www.shellus.com/ , Padoma at http://www.padoma.com/ , Green Mountain Energy at http://www.greenmountain.com/ Cielo at http://www.cielowind.com/ Orion at http://www.orionenergy.com/ and TXU at http://www.txu.com/ .

Also to be built in Texas, also by the end of the year, and with power purchased by TXU Energy, will be the 37.5-megawatt Sweetwater Wind Power Project, also known as Sweetwater 1. (There may be other Sweetwaters up to 400 megawatts in the future.) The Nolan County project will have 25 1.5 megawatt GE Wind Energy Turbines.

DKR Development is the project developer. Visit TXU at http://www.txu.com/ GE at http://www.gewindenergy.com/ and DKR at http://www.dkrdevelopment.com/ .

FPL Energy has announced it will build a 144-megawatt wind farm in Unita County, Wyoming. To be the largest wind farm in that state - by far - the project near Evanston in the southwest part of the state will have have 80 Vestas 1.8 megawatt turbines and will be complete by the end of this year.

FPL will also add 16 megawatts to its High Winds Energy Center in Solano County, California. Visit FPL at http://www.fplenergy.com/ .

Gamesa, the world’s third largest wind turbine manufacturer, has started construction on its first wind farm in the U.S. that is also the first major installation of Gamesa turbines in the country.

With a capacity of 50.4.megawatts, the Mendota Hills facility in Lee County, Illinois will have 63 G52 800 kilowatt turbines that will be operating by the end of 2003. Gamesa has reported it has increased sales 14 percent in the first half of this year, signing contracts for 433 megawatts of wind turbine capacity. Visit Gamesa at http://www.gamesa.es/ .