Billionaire Oilman Building World's Largest Wind Farm in Texas

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Billionaire Oilman Building World's Largest Wind Farm in Texas by Milieunet

A Texas oil tycoon is investing in a new form of power by putting over 600 wind turbines in a big land tract.

After a Department of Energy study in 2007 that stated the US could generate 20 per cent of their necessary electricity from wind, Billionaire T. Boone Pickens decided to buy the turbines from General Electric.

Ali Velshi: Tell me about the wind. Now, you are buying, for a start, more than 600 wind turbines from General Electric. You're going to put them on this big tract of land in Texas, and you're going to generate a lot of electricity.
What happens to that electricity? Tell me where you think you're going to make your money and how this is going to help the situation in America.

T. Boone Pickens: Well, that's the first step to a 4,000-megawatt wind farm. This is 1,000 megawatts.

We start receiving those turbines in mid 2010. We will have the total 4,000 megawatts finished by the end of 2015. That power will go into a transmission line that will tie into the Electric Reliability Council of Texas system in the state of Texas, and it will be transmitted downstate.