The Texas Tech University System, the Innovate Texas Foundation, and The Wind Alliance unveiled their plan during the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Windpower 2010 conference in Dallas.
Start-up funding for NIRE has been given by many of the economic development organisations in West Texas.
It will operate a for-profit business element that will design, construct and operate research wind farms, selling power into the marketplace to fund the non-profit research center.
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