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Yep, another “world’s largest.” While beginning to sound eye-rolling, it’s actually pretty cool that everyone keeps one-upping each other, because that means we’re making real progress. Anyway, back to world’s largest… Oregon has given permits for setting up the Shepherd’s Flat Wind Farm, developed by Caithness Shepherds Flat LLC.

The plan is for 303 turbines to go up, generating 909 MW – a capacity that more than doubles Oregon state’s wind capacity, beats out the US’s so-far-largest wind farm in Texas, the 765 MW Horse Hollow wind farm, and makes it potentially the largest single wind farm in the world. In terms of wind farms in general, we’ll likely be hearing more “world’s largest” coming from China soon.

While the permits are out, there are no dates floating around so far for when it will be up and running. Oregon is serious about its wind power capacity, and is reviewing two more projects, one for 400 MW and one for 143 MW.

Via Portland Business Journal, Treehugger; Photo via vax-o-matic

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