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Newsroom
1/15/2010
 Southwestern University in Georgetown claims to be a trailblazer in wind energy for Texas academia by becoming the first in the state to be completely reliant, soon, on wind energy.
"My understanding is that it's the first university or college in Texas with a hundred percent renewable energy meeting their energy needs, and this electricity is generated in Texas by wind farms," says Jim Briggs, Georgetown's Assistant Manager of Utility Operations.
A proclamation was signed earlier this week by Georgetown's mayor during a city council meeting to encourage the effort.
"Our students have been leading this effort. They have been the bright, moral and courageous people who have been pushing the university," University President Jake Schrum said. "So when some presidents talk about whether or not they think they're putting out leaders in the world, I don't have any concern about that at all." 
Southwestern is working with not only Georgetown's electric utility on the project, but American Electric Power and Southwest Mesa Wind Energy on the project.
"We were the first ones to build a commercial-scale plant out in the Ft. Davis mountain range back in the early '90s. It's a small plant that doesn't exist anymore. That's how quickly the technology has improved," Greg Hall, President of AEP said.
The electricity will be generated at a plant in McCamey, about thirty miles south of Odessa, twenty miles northeast of Ft. Stockton.
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