Ned Farquhar, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, addresses the guests at Terra-Gen Power’s ground breaking ceremony for Alta Wind Energy Center in Mojave, California. Photo: Rod Thornburg

It’s been a while since we’ve seen an honest to goodness gigantic wind power project actually start construction, so this is definitely worth noting: Terra-Gen Power has announced it has begun construction on what it’s calling the world’s largest wind energy project, the 1,550 megawatt Alta … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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