The Panther Creek Wind Farm in Big Spring, Texas

Big Spring, Texas

Big Spring is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Texas, United States, at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 87 and Interstate 20. With a population of 25,233 at the 2000 census, it is the largest city between Midland to the west, Abilene to the east, Lubbock to the north, and San Angelo...

, USA

United States

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 consists of 305 wind turbines and has an installed capacity of 457.5 megawatts, making it one of the ten largest 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...

s in the United States. Phases I and II of the wind farm became operational early in 2009, with the completion of the third and final phase in September 2009. The wind farm can now generate enough wind power

Wind power

Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electricity, windmills for mechanical power, windpumps for water pumping or drainage, or sails to propel ships....

to supply 135,000 Texan homes.