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A new wind investment in Texas
1/14/14
(Cross-posted from the
Official Google Blog
)
It sure is windy in Texas. So windy, in fact, that we’ve made
another
wind energy investment there. In late December we finalized an agreement to invest $75 million in the Panhandle 2 wind farm in Carson County, outside of Amarillo. The 182MW facility, developed by leading wind developer Pattern Energy Group LP, has the capacity to generate enough renewable energy to power 56,000 U.S. homes. We expect the facility to be operational by the end of 2014.
The future sight of Pattern's Panhandle 2 wind farm
Panhandle 2 is our
15th renewable energy investment overall
, and our second in Texas—last year around this time we announced an approximately $200 million investment in the
Spinning Spur wind farm
. In addition to these two projects, we’re also buying Texas wind from the
Happy Hereford wind farm
as part of our
goal
of operating on 100 percent renewable energy. These efforts reflect our long-standing commitment to renewable energy as both an investor and a consumer.
Sunset at another Pattern facility, Gulf Wind
Let that Texas wind blow!
Posted by Nick Coons, Principal, Renewable Energy
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