Washington (Platts)--15May2008

Dallas-based Mesa Power, which in August announced plans to build 4,000
MW of wind generation in the Texas Panhandle, on Thursday said it had placed
an order with General Electric for 667 wind turbines that have a combined
generating capacity of 1,000 MW.

The company said the agreement represents the first phase of the
four-phase, 4,000-MW Pampa Wind Project. Mesa said it expects the wind farm to
be completed in 2014.

Oilman T. Boone Pickens, who founded Mesa Power, said in a statement that
he expects the first phase of the project to cost about $2 billion, and
that electricity from the project will be on-line by early 2011. Under the
order, GE will deliver the 1.5-MW wind turbines in 2010 and 2011.

When complete, the project will cover some 400,000 acres in the Texas
Panhandle. Mesa Power in August filed documents with the Electric Reliability
Council of Texas detailing its plan to build the project in Roberts County and
adjoining areas.

In that filing, the company also said it plans to "to supplement its
[wind] energy production with coal- or gas-fired generating facilities" in the
same area.

The area in which the wind farm is planned is within one of the eight
"competitive renewable energy zones" that the Texas Public Utility Commission
announced in July. The PUC said the zones offer the greatest potential for new
wind farms and will be the focus of new transmission development.

Mesa said it is undertaking feasibility studies, collecting wind data and
negotiating agreements with landowners.