Terms were not made public.
According to Starwood, construction of the first 200MWproject phase is expected to begin in September with commercial operationtargeted by August 2014. It did not say how the project was being financed.
In an April 2012 release, Mesa said the project would eventuallydeploy 233 General Electric 1.6MW wind turbines.
Pickens, an oil tycoon-turned-clean-power-advocate, created privately-held Mesa in 2007 to develop and finance renewable energy power projects, mostof them wind.
