2008-07-13
Biggest Wind Farm Yet Planned for Wyoming. By Chris Merrill, Casper Star-Tribune, July 11, 2008. "A newly proposed wind power project in southern Wyoming would be one of the biggest in the world, and would more than triple the current number of utility-sized wind turbines in the Cowboy State. The proposal involves two adjacent wind farms in Carbon County that would be erected along a gusty ridge five to eight miles south of Rawlins -- with a total of 1,000 turbines producing 2,000 megawatts of electricity... The two farms, taken together, would be one of the largest wind power projects on the planet, surpassing the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Taylor County, Texas, which has 421 turbines and a production capacity of 735 megawatts... The Power Company of Wyoming is in the process of developing three-dimensional, virtual-reality simulations of the proposed project, which should be available on the Web in the coming weeks... According to the American Wind Energy Association, Wyoming currently ranks 13th in the nation with 349 megawatts of installed wind generation capacity. If both of these proposed farms are built, the added capacity would make Wyoming the third-biggest wind energy generator in the nation, behind Texas and California."
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