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BayWa r.e. has completed construction and achieved financial close of the Amadeus wind project in Texas. Located northwest of Abilene in Rotan, Texas, US, the 250 MW wind farm has begun selling power into the grid and will generate enough clean, renewable energy to meet the electricity needs of more than 74 800 homes annually. Amadeus is the largest onshore wind project completed to date in BayWa r.e.’s global portfolio.
Amadeus consists of 96 GE wind turbines deployed across nearly 25 000 acres of federal, state and privately held lands. Over the lifetime of the plant, it will provide millions of dollars in tax benefits to the local community. The wind farm will also reduce the need for power generated from fossil fuels and will keep over 648 000 tpy of CO
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The Lone Star State Looks To Become A Leader In Renewables By Irina Slav - Dec 24, 2020, 2:00 PM CST
Texas is not the first state that one thinks of when someone mentions renewable energy. That would most probably be California. Yet Texas is already the biggest producer of electricity from wind farms in the country and is now on track to become the biggest U.S. producer of solar power, too. A private company, Invenergy, is building a 1.31-GW solar farm in Texas that is going to be the biggest in the United States, capable of producing enough energy to power 300,000 households when completed, which is scheduled for 2023.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, walks to his office from the Senate Floor at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Dec. 18, 2020. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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Clean energy industries got their biggest legislative win in a long time this week, thanks to provisions tucked into the $900 billion Covid-19 stimulus relief bill passed by Congress on Monday.
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