Delaware Mountain Wind Farm
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Delaware Mountain Wind Farm is a wind farm
Wind farm
A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...

 located in Culberson County, Texas
Culberson County, Texas
Culberson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. In 2000, its population was 2,975. Culberson was founded in 1911. It is named for David B. Culberson, a lawyer and Confederate soldier in the American...

. The farm consists of thirty-eight EWC
EWC
EWC is a three-letter abbreviation which may represent*Conference on Early Warning*East West Center at Hawaii*Eastern Wyoming College*Elder Wisdom Circle*Electric Water Cooler*Extreme Wrestling Company*Enhanced Wireless Consortium...

V-47 750 kilowatt wind turbines that produce up to 28.5 megawatts of electricity
Electricity
Electricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...

. All electricity produced by the project is purchased by the Lower Colorado River Authority
Lower Colorado River Authority
The Lower Colorado River Authority or LCRA is a nonprofit public utility that was created in November 1934 by the Texas Legislature. LCRA's mission is to protect people, property and the environment by providing public services for more than one million people in Central and Southeast Texas...

. The project was completed in 1999 by Orion Energy LLC and National Wind Power. Florida Power & Light
Florida Power & Light
Florida Power & Light Company, the principal subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc. , commonly referred to by its initials, FPL, is a Juno Beach, Florida-based power utility which serves roughly 4.4 million customers in Florida. FPL Group holds power generation assets in more than 20 U.S...

now owns and operates the wind farm.
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