Wind power! Don’t make me laugh!

oh, wait…

The power answer for 402,000 Tucson Electric customers may be blowing in the wind. The southern Arizona utility now has its very first wind energy resource capable of providing power for 14,000 homes with the 50-megawatt Macho Springs Wind Farm in Deming, N.M.

The wind farm went online this week in southwest New Mexico with 28 turbines on approximately 2,000 acres of ranch land. Macho Springs was developed in an area with strong, steady winds and existing transmission lines to deliver energy to Tucson.

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