Nevada to play home to 990 MW wind farm

Nevada will soon play host to the biggest wind farm in the United States if all goes as planned. Playing home to a total of 350 turbines at a cost of $1.5 billion, the 990 MW project was proposed by a subsidiary of Good Energies. Today, wind energy in the United States sports a capacity of 42,432MW, and this new wind frm could generate as much as four average-sized coal-firing plants. As part of the project, the subsidiary Wilson Creek Power Partners will also put into place buried power collection lines, communication cables, access roads, meteorological towers, one or more substations and switchyards, an operation and maintenance building and an overhead transmission line.

And with this, the United States and the state of Nevada will have a few more precious drops of green renewable energy flowing into its grids.
[Treehugger]