His successor will face the dilemma of whether to shut off the Carlsbad irrigators to make sure that enough water can flow down to the Red Bluff reservoir in Texas.

ECONOMIST: The Pecos river

The company has installed micro-turbines a top light poles at stores in California and Massachusetts that generate between 2 to 3 kilowatts of electricity but Red Bluff is the first facility that will boast a full-sized wind turbine like those found on wind farms that generate hundreds of megawatts of power.

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