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Texas $7 Billion Crez Wind Project
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Oct 18 2013 06:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
Competitive Renewable Energy Zone(CREZ),. . . 3,600 miles of new transmission lines that will bring
. . . 18,500 megawatts of wind power from
. . . sparsely populated West Texas to urban centers including
. . . . . . Dallas,
. . . . . . Fort Worth and
. . . . . . Austin.
The new lines will make Texas,
. . . the runaway leader in wind transmission,
. . . including a new 218 megawatt
. . . Panhandle Wind Farm in Carson County.
Texas is also the site of the biggest,
. . . wind energy storage project in the US.
. . . The 36 megawatt facility, owned by Duke Energy,
. . . is hooked up to the company’s Notrees Wind Farm.
2013-10-18 Source: Texas
