May 15th, 2006
Offshore Wind Farm Is Approved
It gets mighty windy down there.
Offshore Wind Farm Is Approved
Touting what he called a “wind rush,” Jerry Patterson, commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, said in an interview yesterday that he is determined to make Texas the epicenter of the wind industry, whether in manufacturing turbines for wind projects or establishing the farms themselves. Texas has 2,000 megawatts of wind farms operating on land; this is the state’s second agreement for an offshore farm.







