Big oil to big wind: Texas veteran sets up $10bn clean energy project

Over the next four years he intends to erect 2,700 turbines across 200,000 acres of the Texan panhandle. The scheme is five times bigger than the world's current record-holding wind farm and when finished will supply 4,000 megawatts of electricity - enough to power about one million homes.

It's not just the breathtaking scale of the scheme that is striking, though at a total cost of $10bn it impresses even Pickens himself: "It's pretty mind ... Full Story »

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Beth Wellington
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by Beth Wellington - Oct. 1, 2008

A bit of a fluff piece, without the pros and cons of wind and of big wind farms v.s. a distributed model, but it provides a look at Pickens's Mesa Power wind investment. , "Don't get the idea that I've turned green...My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money." At a time when some are saying renewables will never be viable, that GE's investment in the same may not help stock prices, that new investments in carbon sequestration and liquidfication and new nuclear plants is the only exit from fossil fuel’s high CO2, the reporter writes that Sweetwater, the wind farms’ site. In an area of Texas beset by economic woes, "is in the “Two new companies opened this week, one servicing the blades of ... More »

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

Lacks any serious science data or perspective of critics.

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