Amazon Wind Farm Texas

Amazon Wind Farm Texas is a 253 Megawatt wind farm in Scurry County, West Texas[1] The farm opened in late 2017,[2][3][4] the project includes over 100 turbines which generate and feed into the Texas electric grid 1,000,000 megawatt hours of wind energy annually (1,000 gigawatt hours), enough to power 90,000 typical US homes.[5]

October 19, 2017, Amazon's Jeff Bezos christened the Amazon Wind Farm Texas by smashing a champagne bottle on top of one of the turbines standing more than 300 feet (91 m) tall. In a statement, Amazon revealed that it has entered into an agreement to purchase 90 percent of the facility's output. The facility was built by Lincoln Clean Energy, now part of Ørsted, which also owns and operates the wind farm. This facility is one example of Amazon's large and increasing long-term investment in renewable energy.

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References
  1. Halkias, Maria (2017-09-07). "Jeff Bezos' roots could give Texas an edge as Amazon.com looks for new HQ site". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2017-09-27.
  2. Amazon's Jeff Bezos just opened a massive wind farm in Texas Anmar Frangoul CNBC Published 10:57 AM ET Thu, 19 Oct 2017 Updated 2:41 PM ET Thu, 19 Oct 2017
  3. Associated Press. "Amazon announces plan for West Texas wind farm". KXAN.com. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  4. "About Amazon Blog - Our Largest Wind Farm Yet". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  5. "Amazon invests in Texas wind farm - Longview News-Journal - Longview, TX". News-journal.com. Retrieved 2016-09-18.

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