Saying that you are building the “world’s largest” of something sounds cool, and it gets you good PR. But the scale of the recently approved Sheperd’s Flat Wind Farm near Arlington, Oregon actually will make it one of the world’s largest wind farms. The proposed wind farm will have 303 turbines with a peak capacity of 909 megawatts. “This is a tremendous day for renewable energy in Oregon,” said Michael Grainey, director of the Oregon Department of Energy.
As of right now the largest operating wind farm in the United States is Horse Hollow in Texas, which has a capacity of 736 megawatts. But the Texans don’t want to be left in the dust; oilman T. Boone Pickens says he has plans to build a wind farm in the southern state by 2014 that would reach 4,000 megawatts.
[Via Treehugger]
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