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Xcel Completes Large Wind FarmThe grassy sandhills and open plains of east-central RooseveltCounty have provided a beautiful canvas for human creativityand resilience for generations.Wind EnergyIn recent years, hundreds of wind turbines have sprung from thisseemingly empty space, transforming the energy of the county’sabundant wind into clean and affordable electricity for thousandsof area residents and businesses. And though Xcel Energy andits predecessors have long been partners in Roosevelt County’sprogress, the new Sagamore Wind Project near Dora is XcelEnergy’s first source of wind energy to be built and owned by thecompany in New Mexico.Sagamore went into service in December 2020 and is among thelargest wind farms ever built in New Mexico. Its 240 Vestas turbinescover more than 100,000 acres of rangeland and cultivated fields,producing 522 megawatts of electricity at peak production. XcelEnergy has invested more than $900 million in the project withthe goal of reducing fuel costs to more than 380,000 Xcel Energycustomers in New Mexico and Texas. The fuel for Sagamore is thefree and abundant wind, which also pushes Xcel Energy closer toits goal of reducing carbon emissions by 80% in the next 10 yearsand, by 2050, providing 100% carbon-free electricity to areacustomers.“Building such a large wind facility in the midst of a pandemic hasbeen quite an achievement, but not unexpected considering wherethis has taken place,” said David Essex, Xcel Energy manager forCommunity and Economic Development for the Clovis and Portalesarea. “Local and state leaders recognized early on the impactSagamore would have on the economy and its role in protectingthe environment, and they’ve supported us all along the way.”Sagamore’s 240 turbines can generate enough electricity topower 194,000 homes annually. This clean energy benefits XcelEnergy customers both near and far as it feeds a multistate gridserving eastern and southeastern New Mexico and the Panhandleand South Plains regions of Texas.Roosevelt County benefits even more with the additional taxrevenues the project generates for the county and the Dora schooldistrict. Xcel Energy expects to pay out $43 million in grossreceipts taxes over 25 years. Total impact, including payments tolandowners, is expected to exceed $131.5 million during that time.Between 400 and 500 workers built the Sagamore facility overa 12-month period, and approximately 30 full-time permanentpositions have been created to operate and maintain the wind farmgoing forward.Sagamore is the final project in a three-part effort launched in 2017to increase Xcel Energy’s New Mexico and Texas wind generatingcapacity by 1,250 megawatts. For perspective, the region’s peakelectricity demand was more than 6,200 megawatts in the summerof 2020.The company has purchased wind energy from other producers formore than 20 years but had never built or owned wind facilities inNew Mexico and Texas. The 2017 plan called for the constructionof two Xcel Energy-owned wind farms totaling 1,000 megawattsof capacity and an additional 250-megawatt purchase from newfacilities built by other companies in Texas.Xcel Energy’s Hale Wind Project in Hale County, Texas, added 478megawatts of new wind energy capacity when it was completed in2019 south of Plainview. Sagamore’s 522 megawatts bring the totalamount of megawatts generated by company-owned wind farmsto 1,000 megawatts. These additional wind resources, combinedwith wind energy from existing wind facilities, are expected toprovide close to half the region’s annual electricity needs by 2023.“Roosevelt County is playing a big role in developing this cleanenergy future for New Mexico and Texas,” Essex said. “We’reproud of what has been accomplished at Sagamore and lookforward to continued efforts with our community partners to buildupon these successes.”–Wes Reeves of Xcel Energyportales.com Roosevelt County Chamber 202117
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