Renewable energy developer Airtricity, Inc., announced the construction of its largest wind farm to date in Texas.
The 209 MW Roscoe Wind Farm will provide power to TXU Wholesale, a subsidiary of TXU Corp., under a five-year sales contract. The project area stretches into three counties and will cover nearly 30,000 acres.
The Roscoe Wind Farm, which is scheduled for completion by the end of the year, will produce enough energy to power 60,000 homes annually and will help Texas meet its renewable energy goal of 5,000 new megawatts of its power from renewable sources by 2015. In 2006, Texas became the nation’s leader in installed wind capacity.
This is Airtricity’s third Texas project. It will employ 209 1.0 megawatt Mitsubishi 1000A turbines.
Airtricity’s fourth Texas wind farm, the 126 MW Champion project, recently commenced construction five miles from the Roscoe site. By the end of this year Airtricity will operate 550 MW of wind power in Texas, making it one of the leading providers of clean energy in the state. The company is also currently constructing a project in western New York.
About Airtricity
Founded in 1997, Airtricity is a fully integrated renewable power company with 455 MW of wind projects in operation, a further 1400 MW planned to be in operation by early 2009 and a project development pipeline in excess of 10,000 MW. Airtricity has over 360 employees globally organized in three core business units: Europe on-shore, Europe off-shore and North America.
Airtricity also operates a retail supply business in Ireland supplying 35,000 commercial customers with renewable power. Airtricity North America, headquartered in Chicago, initiated its wind power development activities in the U.S. in 2003 and Canada in 2006.
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