Sweetwater Wind Farm, Texas, US
The 585.3MW Sweetwater Wind Farm, located in Nolan County, Texas, US, currently ranks as the ninth largest wind farm in the world. The onshore wind farm is jointly owned by Duke Energy and Infigen Energy.
The wind farm was built in five phases. The first phase began commercial operations in 2003. The remaining four phases were commissioned by 2007. Austin Energy and CPS Energy buy the renewable power generated by the facility.
Sweetwater Wind Farm consists of total 392 turbines including 25 GE S 1.5MW wind turbines, 151 GE SLE 1.5MW wind turbines, 135 Mitsubishi 1,000A 1MW wind turbines and 81 Siemens 2.3MW wind turbines.