The wind farm features 46 Nordex technology wind turbines totaling 145 MW capacity.
Palmas Altas is located in Cameron County, about 20 miles north of the San Roman wind farm that Acciona started up in December 2016. The new facility will produce around 524 GWh of clean energy per year, equivalent to the consumption of up to 43,000 U.S. households. It will offset the emission of an estimated 503,000 metric tons of CO2.
The Palmas Altas project employed approximately 170 people at the peak of construction. Now completed, a 10-person operations team will staff the wind farm over its 25-year lifespan.
The wind turbines installed in Palmas Altas are Nordex’s AW125/3150 model with a rotor diameter of 125 meters, mounted on an 87.5-meter steel tower (hub height). The energy produced by the wind farm will be sold in the ERCOT-South Texas wholesale market.
Acciona has 1,047 MW of wind power capacity in the U.S. and Canada.
The power installed in the U.S. -866 MW- is distributed across six states - Oklahoma (329 MW), Texas (328 MW), the Dakotas (190 MW), Illinois (101 MW) and Iowa (6 MW). Acciona also owns the 64 MW Nevada Solar One CSP plant outside of Las Vegas.
