The primary operator of North Texas’ electrical grid, Oncor Electric Delivery, has secured a contract to install $1.3 billion worth of electrical transmission lines to join the massive wind farms of West Texas to the State’s grid.

As the American state with the most wind power generation (8,000 megawatt capacity), Texas is seeing a steep increase in the percentage of its power coming from wind farms. In 2007 wind power accounted for 2.9 percent of the electricity generated in Texas and last year it grew to 4.9 percent. Not bad for the oil heartland of America.