Texan Tycoon to build world’s largest wind farm

The Texan oil tycoon, T. Boone Pickens will this month put down a deposit for five hundred wind turbines in his bid to construct the biggest wind farm in the world. The price of each of the turbines is two million dollars.

The Texan oil tycoon also aims to set up two thousand and seven hundred wind turbines in an area of land measuring 80,940 hectares in Texas over the next four years. Once complete the project will be five times bigger than the present biggest wind farm on the planet. The wind farm will have a capacity to produce four gigawatts of electricity, the equivalent of which is the power consumption of one million households.

T. Boone Pickens first toyed with the idea of a wind farm while out hunting on his ranch. Before long he got his fellow ranchers on board after getting into a deal with them where he would pay them between ten thousand and twenty thousand dollars in yearly royalties for every wind turbine he would set up on their ranches.

But T. Boone Pickens is not the first in Texas to launch into the generation of wind power. Nolan County for instance is home to the three biggest wind farms in the United States and the combined wind power that is produced by them is more than the combined wind power generated by France, California and Britain.

Besides the profits being a motivating factor the other reason for the Texan oil tycoon’s plunge into wind power generation is the slackening production of oil in Texas.