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World News09.04.2024

This old Texas wind farm now makes more power with fewer turbines

QAZAQ GREEN. An old wind farm in Texas just got a second life, and its capacity has gone from 160 megawatts (MW) to 182 MW, Electrek reports.

The Brazos Wind Farm is in Fluvanna, in Borden and Scurry counties, in West Texas. It sits on around 10,000 acres.

InfraRed Capital Investments acquired 60% ownership of the Brazos Wind Farm site last month, but Shell USA continues to operate the site.

Brazos was initially completed in December 2003 and featured 160 1-MW wind turbines capable of powering around 30,000 homes. But Shell redeveloped it, and it now has 182 MW of power generation capacity that can produce enough electricity to power approximately 67,000 homes.

Due to an increase in wind turbine size and more advanced technology, that big bump in generation capacity has been achieved with 122 fewer turbines onsite. Brazos now features 38 next-generation Nordex 5-MW turbines. The new Nordex turbines enable remote monitoring and data generation, plus they’re safer and more reliable.

As for the 160 decommissioned turbines, Shell says it’s contracted the removal and repurposing of 2,100 tons of fiberglass from the blades, and the “material will be repurposed to support the creation of products for concrete, asphalt, composites, and/or bulk molding applications.”

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