Rentals Help Build GIANT Wind Farm

摘要

The winds blowing across eastern New Mexico will soon fuel the nation's third-largest wind-powered generation facility, thanks in part to rental equipment. Because of the wind farm's remote location and the nearly 25 out-of-state contractors who traveled there to build it, rental equipment played a crucial role. Nearly all of the equipment on-site was rented, according to the general contractor, Florida Power Light & Energy LLC (FPL Energy). Rusty Hurt, project superintendent for FPL Energy, says, "Because of the remote location, it was often more economical to rent the equipment locally - even though the contractor may have owned the same piece of equipment four states away." Rental Service Corp. set up two on-site storage containers at the job site, full of equipment that Hurt and RSC sales representative Valerie Wheatstine anticipated contractors would need.