T. Boone Pickens orders 667 GE turbines for wind farm in Panhandle

T. Boone Pickens has placed a massive order for wind turbines with General Electric, a big step toward building the world’s largest wind farm in the Panhandle.

Mr. Pickens’ company, Mesa Power LLP, plans to announce today that it ordered 667 turbines from GE for about $2 billion.

That will produce 1,000 megawatts of power, more than the average nuclear power plant, and enough juice to light 300,000 homes.
And it’s just a quarter of the turbines that the legendary oilman plans to erect near his ranch in Pampa.

By 2014, Mr. Pickens wants to have 4,000 megawatts of windmills turning in a $10 billion to $12 billion project.

“We want to make Pampa the wind capital of the world,” Mr. Pickens said. He’s leased land in Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Roberts and Wheeler counties for the project.

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