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The New Mexico Wind Energy Center officially opened on October 1, 2003. Located 170 miles southeast of
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and 20 miles northeast of Fort Sumner, the
wind farm A wind farm, also called a wind park or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an exten ...
is well suited for eastern
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's windy landscape. New Mexico Wind Energy Center
/ref> The wind center consists of 136
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, each standing 210 feet high. The facility can produce up to 200
megawatts The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named in honor o ...
of power, which is enough electricity to power 94,000 average New Mexico homes. Electricity production does not require water, produce emissions, or generate solid waste.
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owns and manages the facility, while PNM purchases all of its output.


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List of wind farms in the United States This is a list of large wind farms in the United States. Many of the wind farms in the United States are located in the Great Plains. Onshore wind farms Listed are wind farms with a generating capacity of at least 150 megawatts (MW) or a ...


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