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.