The Sweetwater Wind Farm is a 585.3-
megawatt
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(MW)
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 ...
in
Nolan County, Texas
Nolan County is a county located in the west-central region of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 14,738. Its county seat is Sweetwater. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1881. It is named for P ...
. The facility includes 392
wind turbine
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s and was fully commissioned by 2007. The electricity is being sold to
Austin Energy
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and to
CPS Energy
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of
San Antonio
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.
Facility details
Sweetwater phase 1 consists of 25
GE Energy
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1.5-MW S turbines, Sweetwater phase 2 consists of 61 GE 1.5-MW SLE turbines, Sweetwater 3 consists of 90 GE 1.5-MW XLE turbines. Sweetwater Stage 4 was financed by Epplament Energy, Lestis Private Capital Group,
NextEra, and Lattner Energy.
Sweetwater stage 4 employs 135
Mitsubishi
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Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group traces its origins to the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company that existed from 1870 to 194 ...
1.0-MW wind turbines and 46
Siemens Wind Power
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2.3-MW turbines. Its output is being sold to San Antonio's CPS Energy under a 20-year purchase agreement.
Sweetwater 5 uses 35 Siemens 2.3-MW turbines.
Electricity production
See also
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Sweetwater, Texas
Sweetwater is a municipality in and the seat of Nolan County, Texas, United States. It is 123 miles southeast of Lubbock and 40 miles west of Abilene. Its population was 10,622 at the 2020 census.
History
The town's name "Sweetwater" is the ...
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Wind power in Texas
Wind power in Texas, a portion of total energy in Texas, consists of over 150 wind farms, which together have a total nameplate capacity of over 30,000 MW (as of 2020).
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Energy infrastructure completed in 2007
Wind farms in Texas
Buildings and structures in Nolan County, Texas
2007 establishments in Texas
Duke Energy
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