Land Office signs up another wind farm
NMBW Staff
The New Mexico State Land Office will sign an agreement on Friday to lease 4,320 acres of state trust lands for a wind farm in Roosevelt County.
The Land Office will lease the property to Podoma Wind Power LLC of La Jolla, Calif.
The company will build 120 wind turbines on the farm, which will produce enough electricity to power 41,600 homes. The wind farm will be called the San Juan Mesa Wind Project, the Land Office said in a news release. Approximately 50 of those turbines will be on State Land Office land. The rest will be built on private property. The wind farm will be located about 65 miles northeast of Roswell.
New Mexico is already home to five wind farms, three of which have turbines on state trust lands.
The State Land Office manages nine million acres of land in the state. Proceeds from its leases go to fund public education in New Mexico.
