Texas’ Amazon Wind Farm will include more than 100 turbines, each with a rotor diameter twice as long as the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
Amazon has announced its largest renewable energy project to date, a 253-MW wind farm in Scurry County, Texas. Amazon Wind Farm will consist of more than 100 turbines — each with a diameter twice as long as the wingspan of a Boeing 747. They are scheduled to start delivering energy to the grid by late 2017, and will generate 1,000,000 megawatt hours of wind energy annually.
The wind project is expected to bring jobs and investment in Scurry County. Once complete, power will combine with Amazon’s other wind farms in Indiana, North Carolina, and Ohio, as well as their solar farm in Virginia.
Together, these projects will (and some already do) deliver energy to the electrical grids supplying both current and future Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud data centers. All five projects are expected to generate more than 2.6 million megawatt hours each year – or enough to power more than 240,000 homes.
Amazon Wild Farm is part of the company’s long-term sustainability efforts, which include wind and solar farms, green rooftops, and the District Energy Project. This is a system the company will build in Seattle to heat their office buildings with recycled energy.
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