Sweetwater benefits from the wind-energy industry, including two large wind farms nearby. Drivers arriving on I-20 from either direction are welcomed by a giant wind turbine blade painted with the ...

Julie CirelliAtlantic Wind Farm in Atlantic City, the only commercial-scale wind project in the state, April 1, 2009. NRG Energy has purchased the South Trent wind farm near Sweetwater, Texas.

Sweetwater, Texas aims to be the wind power capitol of the world. Corbis via Getty Images. Key Facts. ... Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes (Bloomberg) ...

S&C Electric Co. was awarded a $2.6 million contract by Sweetwater Wind to upgrade a portion of the 585 MW wind farm in Sweetwater, Texas.

Beginning operations in 2001, the wind farm is between Abilene and Sweetwater in West Texas and has about 100 wind turbines, which can supply power to 35,000 homes.

As you enter the town of Sweetwater, Texas, you are greeted by a welcome sign that is made from a wind turbine blade. It is in recognition of the fact that the town is surrounded by some of the ...

Sweetwater 1 & 2 wind facilities have been in operation since 2003 and 2005, respectively. Gas. ... Leeward Repowers Two Texas Wind Farms to 136 MW. January 16, 2018. Clarion Energy Content Directors.

Nowhere is this fight and uncertainty more palpable than in Texas, the wild west of wind energy and the home of the nation’s wind energy capital, Sweetwater, where the surrounding county boasts one ...

SWEETWATER, Texas — The wind farms in Nolan County brought big bucks into the area, but with those turbines needing new blades after a few years, finding a place to store the old blades was ...

Texas State Technical College wind energy technology instructor James Chung, center, helps Steven Vasquez, left, and Shayne Howard, right, during a class in Sweetwater on March 5.

Texas State Technical College wind energy technology instructor James Chung, center, helps Steven Vasquez, left, and Shayne Howard, right, during a class in Sweetwater on March 5.

At sunset, outside one of Sweetwater’s largest wind farms, the crackling of the electricity from the transmission lines overhead that deliver energy as far as Dallas and Austin some 200 miles ...