Buffalo Gap Wind Farm

The Buffalo Gap Wind Farm is located in Nolan and Taylor Counties, about 20 miles (30 km) south west of Abilene, Texas.

It was constructed in three phases and has a total wind generation capacity of 523.3 megawatts (MW).

[1] Buffalo Gap 1 consists of 67 Vestas V-80 wind turbines, each rated at 1.8 MW, for a total capacity of 120.6 MW.

The facility was developed by AES Wind Generation and went into commercial operation in June 2007.

[2][3] Buffalo Gap 3 is a 170.2 MW addition, completed in September 2008, consisting of 74 Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbines.