Delaware Mountain Wind Farm

Delaware Mountain Wind Farm is a wind farm located in the Delaware Mountains of Culberson County, Texas. The farm consists of thirty-eight EWC Zond Z-48 750 kilowatt wind turbines that produce up to 28.5 megawatts of electricity. All electricity produced by the project is purchased by the Lower Colorado River Authority. The project was completed in 1999 by Orion Energy LLC and National Wind Power. NextEra Energy Resources now owns and operates the wind farm. As a result of damage to the wind farm and transmission infrastructure by an ice storm in November 2013, the Delaware Mountain Wind Farm and the adjacent Wind Power Partners 94 wind farm have been off-line. NextEra has informed the ERCOT, Electric Reliability Council of Texas, that it is dismantling the farms and "... they will be decommissioned and retired on 7 August 2014."[1][2]

Delaware Mountain Wind Farm
CountryUnited States
Locationnear Van Horn, Texas
Coordinates31°44′03″N 104°45′52″W
Commission date1999
Owner(s)NextEra Energy Resources
Power generation
Units operational38
Nameplate capacity28.5 MW
External links
Websitehttps://web.archive.org/web/20110717082348/http://www.infinitepower.org/projects.htm

References

  1. Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review Jan 2014.
  2. "NextEra shutters Texas duo". reNEWS - Renewable Energy News. 2014-05-21. Retrieved 2018-04-27.


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