The Hackberry Wind Project is a US $350 million wind farm

Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...

 in Shackelford County, Texas

Shackelford County, Texas

As of the census of 2000, there were 3,302 people, 1,300 households, and 941 families residing in the county. The population density was 4 people per square mile . There were 1,613 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile...

. The project consists of 72 Siemens

Siemens Wind Power

Siemens Wind Power, or SWP, is a wind turbine manufacturer with headquarters and main production facilities established in 1980 in Brande, Denmark. SWP is wholly owned by Siemens of Germany since 2004 through the Renewable Energy division in the Siemens Energy sector...

 wind turbines with a total capacity of 166 megawatts. The energy is used by residents of the City of Austin and surrounding communities. Construction on the project began in January 2008 and was finished in December 2008, on-time and under budget.

See also

• List of wind farms
• Wind power in the United States
  Wind power in the United States
  As of the third quarter of 2011, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power in the United States was 43,461 megawatts , making it second in the world, behind China. In 2010 wind power accounted for 2.3% of the electricity generated in the United States...
  
  
• Wind power in Texas
  Wind power in Texas
  Wind power in Texas consists of many wind farms with a total installed nameplate capacity of 10,223 MW from over 40 different projects. Texas produces the most wind power of any U.S. state, followed by Iowa with 3,708 MW...