Powering Knox County with a bright future
El Campo Wind is one of the largest investments ever made in Knox County; the total cost of the project is approximately $335 million. Two Danish pension funds PKA and PenSam, represented by their investment manager AIP, are long-term investors in the project alongside Longroad Energy.
The project has two long term Power Purchase Agreements with DaVita Inc, and Crown Holdings The project utilizes three different Vestas turbine models to generate its capacity of 243 MWac.
The project will contribute nearly $20 million to the Benjamin Independent School District, Knox County, Knox County Hospital District, and local economy.
This site represents approximately 400,000 metric tons of avoided CO2 emissions annually, the equivalent of taking approximately 97,000 gasoline-powered cars off the road for each year that the project is operating.
| Solar capacity | 243 MWac |
| Investment into schools and local economy | $20 M |
| CO2 emissions avoided annually* | 400,000 MT |
| Equivalent average American homes powered** | 54,000 |
| Commercial operations | 2020 |
**EIA average residential electricity consumption, 2020