Some 150 miles North of Phoenix, on the edge of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest — a stark high-desert landscape of burnt-orange mesas, saguaro cacti and ponderosa pines — sits the state’s first commercial-scale wind farm. The giant turbines of the Dry Lake Wind Power Project resemble the creatures that literary hero Don Quixote jousted against in La Mancha. Which is fitting, since this wind farm is owned by Iberdrola Renovables, the world’s biggest producer of wind power, based in Valencia, Spain. With operations in 23 countries, including Britain, Romania and Brazil, Iberdrola Renovables is rolling hard and fast, nowhere more so…
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