Texas to get the nation’s largest offshore wind farm, officials announced Thursday. The farm will consist of as many as 500 windmills out in the Gulf of Mexico. The project will be built and operated by the Houston-based Superior Renewable Energy.
The farm is planned within about 10 miles of Padre Island. The project expected to be ready in five years, will approximately cost $1 billion to $2 billion.
The turbines would stand 400-foot tall and would generate a total of 500 megawatts of electricity. And this energy producing is enough to power 125,000 homes.
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said,
The wind rush is on… We want to be No. 1. We want to attract the businesses that build the turbines that build the blades.
Via: Environmental News Network
