Pickens Shelves His Texas Wind Farm Plan. By Andrew Clark, Guardian (UK), July 8, 2009. "The billionaire energy tycoon T Boone Pickens has scrapped a $10 billion plan to build the world's largest windfarm in the panhandle of Texas, dealing a setback to a broader effort to wean the US off its dependence on foreign oil. Pickens blamed technical problems in transporting power between the proposed site of the system, which was to be in agricultural land hundreds of miles north-west of Dallas, and major population centres. The demise of the project leaves Pickens, 81, with a challenge in dealing with an initial load of 687 giant wind turbines, already on order from General Electric and due for delivery from 2011. He hopes to build a series of smaller power generation farms instead of a single enormous one. 'My garage won't hold them,' said Pickens. 'They've got to go someplace.'"