Mesa Power's Plans for World's Largest Wind Farm Move Forward With ERCOT Filing
Posted on: Thursday, 16 August 2007, 15:23 CDT
DALLAS, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Mesa Power said today it has filed documents with a state agency to add 4,000 megawatts of wind-generated electricity to the power grid in Texas.
The filing with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) details plans for the project, which, when completed as projected in late 2011, would be the world's largest wind farm.
Mesa Power, formed earlier this year, said the project could have as many as 2,700 turbines on up to 200,000 acres in Roberts and adjacent counties in the Texas Panhandle.
ERCOT, which operates as part of the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC), manages the state's power grid. In the company's filing, Mesa Power said it plans to construct a power line and deliver the electricity to either the Oklaunion or Anna substations.
Company officials said the project is well underway, with feasibility studies and wind tower data collection continuing.
"We are now meeting with Panhandle landowners and negotiating wind lease and easement agreements," said T. Boone Pickens, chairman of Mesa Power. "We are excited at how quickly the pieces are falling into place."
Mesa Power was created earlier this year by Pickens. Pickens, in partnership with other Texas Panhandle landowners, is also pursuing the sale of 200,000 acre feet of groundwater from the area to meet the increasing demands in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The wind leases are in the same area as the groundwater leases and will include many of the same landowners. Electric transmission lines could follow the same right of way that will be utilized for a groundwater pipeline.
Incorporated in the ERCOT filings are plans by Mesa Power to supplement its energy production with coal- and/or gas-fired generating facilities to be located in the same area.
Mesa Power
CONTACT: Jay Rosser, +1-214-265-4165, for Mesa Power
Source: PRNewswire
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