North America’s largest wind farm set for Wyoming
Carmel Doyle
Silicon Republic
The plains of Wyoming in the US could be the setting for what is being termed North America’s largest wind farm yet.
The US Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently announced that the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy facility will be a renewable energy priority project for 2012.
It will be constructed south of Rawlins in Carbon County, Wyoming, covering nearly 222,689 acres of public land. The Power Company of Wyoming (PCW) said the wind farm could have as many as 1,000 turbines that would generate a combined 2,500 megawatts (MW) of cleaner electricity for about 30 years.
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