Pickens places world's largest order for world's largest windfarm
T. Boone Pickens -- who we previously reported is building the world's largest wind farm -- placed his order Thursday for phase 1 of the unprecedentedly huge renewables project. The $2 billion order for 667 GE turbines was the largest order ever for a single site, and it's only phase 1 of 4 -- no kidding. When the oil tycoon completes the Pampa Wind Project in the Texas panhandle, there will be 2,500 turbines cranking. Because of the sheer size of the order -- and I'm assuming the backlog of turbine orders that GE has piling up -- the deliveries to the Pampa site won't begin until 2010, the whole thing should be up and running by 2014. The farm will pump out enough juice to power 1.3 million homes, the hard part is getting it to the homes. As the wind-boom continues to surge, energy companies are scrambling to beef up energy infrastructure. According to Pickens, of the $10 billion project, $2 billion is going to transmission lines alone.
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