The Sweetwater Wind Farm is a 585.3-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Nolan County, Texas. The facility includes 392 wind turbines and was fully commissioned by 2007. The electricity is being sold to Austin Energy and to CPS Energy of San Antonio.
Facility details
Sweetwater phase 1 consists of 25 GE Energy 1.5-MW S turbines, Sweetwater phase 2 consists of 61 GE 1.5-MW SLE turbines, Sweetwater 3 consists of 90 GE 1.5-MW XLE turbines. Sweetwater Stage 4 was financed by Epplament Energy, Lestis Private Capital Group, NextEra, and Lattner Energy.
Sweetwater stage 4 employs 135 Mitsubishi 1.0-MW wind turbines and 46 Siemens Wind Power 2.3-MW turbines. Its output is being sold to San Antonio's CPS Energy under a 20-year purchase agreement.
Sweetwater 5 uses 35 Siemens 2.3-MW turbines.
Electricity production
+Sweetwater Wind Farm Generation (MW·h) Year Phase 137.5 MW Phase 291.5 MW Phase 3135 MW Phase 4240.8 MW Phase 580.5 MW Total AnnualMW·h 2005 125,279 262,659 4,527 - - 392,465 2006 126,278 313,075 436,492 - - 875,845 2007 109,809 279,581 406,006 365,547 12,472 1,173,415 2008 126,464 309,123 442,975 698,310 243,006 1,819,878 2009 114,538 299,164 382,743 683,557 220,461 1,700,463 2010 118,804 290,015 406,619 667,902 228,384 1,711,724 2011 126,199 313,783 419,761 733,711 241,538 1,834,992 2012 133,090 301,114 437,006 714,711 238,504 1,824,425 2013 114,990 307,886 462,095 706,289 238,533 1,829,793 2014 125,722 323,607 448,344 720,417 249,477 1,867,567 2015 109,446 283,044 373,191 609,580 206,118 1,581,379 2016 114,330 297,092 420,763 690,042 238,264 1,760,491 2017 97,304 256,576 402,069 685,549 229,886 1,671,384Average annual production (years 2008–2017) : 1,760,210Average Capacity Factor (years 2008–2017) : 34.3%
See also
Sweetwater, Texas Wind power in Texas
References
External links