T. Boone Pickens full of hot air? Mesa Power cuts orders for West Texas wind turbines in half

摘要

A Big Sandy River rat was amused to learn the wind Pickens are slimmer than anticipated. "I saw T. Boone Pickens on the TV all during the campaign saying he was going to save us all from ruin," the source said. "Then the price of natural gas collapsed." The source reacted, of course, to the news Pickens' Mesa Power sliced by half its order with General Electric of wind turbines for West Texas - highly touted during May 2008 as the greatest thing in the wind since the kite - and indicated it will deploy some assets elsewhere. Inadequate transmission capability was cited.