Texas wind farm begins commercial clean energy operation

Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of Avangrid, has announced that its 307.06MW Karankawa Wind Farm has started clean energy supply. The Karankawa wind farm is located in San Patricio and Bee counties, northeast of Mathis, Texas. The wind farm covers 18,000 acres owned by 65 landowners. Karankawa is powered by 124 of GE’s wind turbines ranging in capacity between 2.3 and 2.52 MW, with a total capacity of 307.06MW. The wind farm is the sixth-largest in Texas and the largest wind farm of Avangrid Renewables in Texas. Karankawa is part of the company's wind portfolio of over 1.2GW delivering clean electricity to both commercial and utility consumers.