A wind generating company says it will be ready to start construction on a wind farm south of Willard in the spring.

But first, managers of the High Lonesome Wind Ranch LLC plan to submit today to the Torrance County Planning and Zoning Commission an application for a zoning ordinance for a special use district for the farm.

"We're ready to put our application in. We had to pull together lots of pieces. These are complex projects," said Amy LeGere, Foresight Wind Energy regional development manager.

The wind project is about nine miles south of Willard on private land on Mesa de los Jumanos and is being developed by High Lonesome Wind Ranch LLC, a partnership of Foresight Wind, Karbon Zero and Edison Mission Group.

While other wind companies have constructed meteorological, or MET, towers to assess available wind in the area, HLWR would be Torrance County's first wind project, LeGere said.

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