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Biggest ever US clean energy project is complete after nearly two decades

The biggest ever U.S. clean energy infrastructure project, an $11 billion wind farm and transmission line in New Mexico, is ​fully operational after nearly two decades of permitting and ‌construction, owner Pattern Energy Group said on Thursday.

SunZia is a 3,650-megawatt wind farm and 550-mile (885-km) transmission line that will carry power from central ​New Mexico to south-central Arizona. About two-thirds of the ​electricity will then be sent west to customers in ⁠California.

Read more in Reuters here.

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