World's Largest Wind Farm Begins Operation in Texas

E.ON (EOAN.DE) announced that it has put into operation the world’s largest wind farm, located in Roscoe, Texas.

It took just over two years to install the 627 wind turbines with a combined capacity of approximately 780 megawatts (MW).

The wind farm consists of four sections and covers an area of about 400 square kilometers, twice the size of a city like Düsseldorf, in Germany, where E.ON is based.

The wind turbines manufactured by Mitsubishi (MUJ.F), General Electric (NYSE: GE) and Siemens (NYSE: SI) can generate electricity for more than 230,000 homes.

"In just under two years we have increased our wind park capacities worldwide to 2,600 MW, with over half of that total–1,500 MW–in the United States," said Frank Mastiaux, CEO of E.ON Climate & Renewables, who is responsible for the E.ON Group’s renewable activities. "With large-scale projects like Roscoe we are helping renewables to achieve a faster breakthrough in economic and technological terms. For this purpose we will invest EUR 8 billion worldwide up to 2011. Our aim is to reach a capacity of 10,000 MW in 2015."