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5:11 p.m. Oct. 29, 2025: This story updated with new information. Break out the sweaters — Wednesday is expected to be the coldest day of Dallas-Fort Worth’s current cold snap. The temperature is ...

GE Vernova is going to supply more than 100 US-made wind turbines to renewables developer RWE for 308 megawatts (MW) of wind projects in west Texas. RWE is repowering its 127 MW Forest Creek wind farm ...

Pat Wood III was walking out of the governor's office in 1996 when his boss said something about wind power that stopped him cold. "Hey, Pat," then-Gov. George W. Bush called out to him. "We like wind ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Texas's main power generation system is on track for a rare contraction in fossil fuel-fired generation in 2025, as long as output from the state's massive wind ...

A version of this story ran in the March / April 2025 issue. The wind blows from two directions to the Los Vientos Wind Farm, Texas’ largest and the nation’s second largest, with 426 turbines towering ...