The Roscoe Wind Farm near

Roscoe, Texas Roscoe is a city in Nolan County in the U.S. state of Texas near the intersection of Interstate 20 and US Highway 84. The Union Pacific Railroad passes through the center of the city.William R. Hunt, " Roscoe, TX," Handbook of Texas Online, http ...

is one of the world's largest-capacity

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s. With 627

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s and a total installed capacity of 781.5 MW, owned and operated by RWE. At the time of its completion in 2009, it was the largest wind farm in the world, surpassing the nearby 735.5-megawatt Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center. In 2012, it was overtaken by California's 1,020-megawatt

Alta Wind Energy Center Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC), also known as Mojave Wind Farm, is the third largest onshore wind energy project in the world. The Alta Wind Energy Center is a wind farm located in Tehachapi Pass of the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, Califo ...

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Roscoe was constructed in four phases. The first phase, Roscoe, was constructed in 2008 and consists of 209 Mitsubishi 1-megawatt turbines. Phase two is called Champion was also completed in 2008 and includes 55 Siemens 2.3-megawatt machines. The third phase is called Pyron. Its 166 GE 1.5-megawatt turbines were commissioned in mid-2009 shortly before the fourth phase, Inadale, was completed. Inadale adds 197 more Mitsubishi 1-megawatt turbines to the existing project. The project cost more than $1 billion and provides enough power for more than 250,000 average Texan homes. It is located about west of

Fort Worth Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. Accord ...

, spanning parts of four Texas counties and covering nearly , several times the size of Manhattan.O'Grady, Eileen
E.ON completes world's largest wind farm in Texas
''Reuters'', October 1, 2009.EC&R Completes 780-MW Roscoe Wind Farm
''Renewable Energy World'', 2 October 2009.American Wind Energy Association
U.S. Wind Energy Industry Installs over 2,800 MW in First Quarter
Cliff Etheredge, a local cotton farmer, helped to organize the project. In addition to its large size, the farm is also notable for the large number of individual land owners (as many as 400) who share in

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from the project.John Burnett
Winds of Change Blow into Roscoe, Texas
''NPR'', November 27, 2007. Wind farms are helping to revive the local economy in remote areas of West Texas and the

Texas Panhandle The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a square-shaped area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east. It is adjacent to ...

. The Roscoe Wind Farm and Cliff Etheredge are featured in the 2010 documentary film,''

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