NEWS: The largest US wind farm will kick off commercial operations this month.

In New Mexico, Pattern Energy’s SunZia Wind Project is scheduled to put its 916 wind turbines to use in the coming weeks, the EIA announced. Its summer generating capacity (3.6 GW) is over 3x bigger than that of the country’s next two biggest wind farms. 

This will make wind power 45% of NM’s capacity mix (but most of those electrons will head for AZ and Southern CA via the new 550-mile SunZia transmission line).