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The five-year wind-farm development project, with an anticipated total generating capacity of 2,015 MW, will be located at five wind farms in New York, Texas, and South Dakota, the companies said.
Jerry Patterson, Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, recently announced details of the state's second offshore wind farm - a development off the coast of Padre Island National Seashore.
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The massive turbines, capable of generating 1.5 megawatts of electricity, will be used in projects in New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.
The winds of change might soon be blowing in Hardeman County, and those winds might mean change in the pockets for farmers, ranchers and landowners in need of a little extra income.
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GAINESVILLE, Texas — While residents to the east are rallying to stop a large tollway from affecting property values, among other factors, in western Cooke County there’s a struggle of another kind.
A movement has begun to oppose a project by Florida Power and Light Co. to establish a long line of wind generators from west of Moss Lake through Muenster and Saint Jo.
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Direct Energy to purchase energy from Airtricity wind farm
June 28, 2006 by Monica Perin in Houston Business Journal
June 28, 2006 by Monica Perin in Houston Business Journal
Houston-based Direct Energy will purchase all output and Renewable Energy Credits, or RECs, from Airtricity's 90-megawatt Sand Bluff Wind Farm located 60 miles north of San Angelo.
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Wind farm company with local ambitions gets Texas project funded
June 22, 2006 in The Business Review
June 22, 2006 in The Business Review
Cost wind-generated power again higher than conventional power
June 18, 2006 in Midland Reporter-Telegram
June 18, 2006 in Midland Reporter-Telegram
he honeymoon is over -- for now -- for Xcel Energy customers who enjoyed a price advantage by using the Windsource voluntary green-power program.
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Wind farm stirs dust up - Saint Jo real estate broker offers resistance to power company
June 13, 2006 by Barbara Green in Times Record News
June 13, 2006 by Barbara Green in Times Record News
Elegant, sleek design - or giant three-armed Cyclops?
Those terms are used to describe the same thing in the debate over wind farms. While many promote them as a futuristic form of alternative energy, opponents see them as blights on the landscape.
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...the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas and Western Louisiana coast hosts the largest concentration of Neotropical migratory birds in the Western Hemisphere. These birds move by the billions between Latin America and North America.
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While proponents of wind energy see a potential economic boom by harnessing the wind, at least one state public policy think tank researcher is warning that turbine farms aren't a panacea. He says the cost of transporting the electricity generated in the Concho Valley to urban markets in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio might sap the long-term value of rural wind energy generation.
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The next stage for bringing wind power offshore will start this summer.
Wind Energy Systems Technologies, a subsidiary of Herman Schellstede and Associates Inc. in New Iberia, has completed its sea-floor study of an area eight miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas.
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Concerns over birds in blades - Migration patterns will be studied by Houston-based firm for 3 years
May 12, 2006 by Fanny S. Chirinos in Corpus Christi Caller-Times
May 12, 2006 by Fanny S. Chirinos in Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Fifty miles south of Corpus Christi, a few miles offshore, as many as 170 wind turbines will tower over the water, generating enough electricity to power 125,000 homes, Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - A proposed wind farm that would be the biggest offshore one in the nation won approval Thursday from Texas state officials, the latest development in the fast-growing segment of the alternative-energy industry.
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AUSTIN - The nation's largest offshore wind farm will be built off the Padre Island seashore in South Texas, a critical migratory bird flyway, Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said Thursday.
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Environmental community split over wind farm
May 9, 2006 by Asher Price in Austin American-Statesman
May 9, 2006 by Asher Price in Austin American-Statesman
Some want renewable energy fast; others want to slow down to check on birds.
The environmental community is divided over a deal the state`s General Land Office signed with Wind Energy Systems Technology, or WEST. The deal is to develop 50 wind turbines off the coast of Galveston that would power about 40-thousand homes that wouldn`t rely on fossil fuels. The problem is that Galveston is beneath a critical migratory bird path that links North America to Central and South America wintering grounds.
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The University of Texas School of Law is joining with the West Texas Wind Energy Consortium and the Sweetwater law firm of Steakley, Wetsel and Carmichael to organize the first-ever Wind Energy Institute on June 1-2 on the Sweetwater campus of Texas State Technical College West Texas.
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Texas now ranks second in wind energy produced each year, trailing only California in the amount of the renewable resource, Texas Railroad Commissioner Victor Carrillo said in San Angelo this week.
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Shifting winds in the energy market will have Austin Energy paying significantly more for its next batch of bluster.
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