The owner of a $300 million South Texas wind farm has put in a turbine order with a Danish wind company to supply 212 megawatts of wind turbines for the project.
Boston-based Longroad Energy made the order from Danish wind turbine maker Vestas for the 238-megawatt Rio Bravo wind farm in Starr County west of McAllen. The turbines will start to be delivers at the beginning of 2019.
Longroad Energy expects the wind farm to be online in June 2019, and the company said the project has a 15-year energy hedge with Citigroup Energy Inc.
Texas leads the U.S. with more than 22,000 megawatts of wind energy installed. One megawatt can power 200 Texas homes on a hot summer day.