Pattern Energy, the wind-focused US yieldco, has commissioned and dedicated its 324MW Broadview wind farm in eastern New Mexico, giving a sizeable boost to Siemens’ 2017 delivery figures.

Aside from simply being a big wind farm, even by US standards, Broadview is important in being at the vanguard of a new generation of US renewables projects that will flow their power over long distances to reach population centres closer to the country's coasts.