How a repowered wind farm near the border is powering nearly 40,000 homes in San Antonio [Video]

SAN ANTONIO – Nearly 40,000 homes in San Antonio are receiving part of their electricity from a newly repowered wind farm located almost 150 miles south of the city.

The Cedro Hill wind farm, operated by Clearway Energy in Webb County, announced last Wednesday that it had repowered the farm with “new, more efficient equipment that increased the wind farm’s capacity to 160 MW,” according to a press release from the company.

San Antonio’s city-owned utility, CPS Energy, is purchasing 100% of the site’s capacity until 2045, said Barry Matchett, director of external affairs for Clearway’s Midwest and Gulf region.

Matchett said the 40,000 figure is used as a sort of “power equivalency” to gauge how much electricity the site can actually generate.

“The electricity generated from Cedro Hill interconnects directly to the local grid and flows wherever there is real-time demand within that grid system,” he said.

By comparison, CPS Energy …