Clipper Windpower plant could employ as many as 550 – Colorado is competing with Nevada for the plant, which would boost the state’s wind prominence.

A California wind-energy company is eyeing Colorado as a location to build the nation’s largest wind turbines.

Clipper Windpower Inc. said Colorado and Nevada are finalists in the company’s plan to build a plant that would produce a new line of wind generators soaring 435 feet into the air – more than 100 feet taller than downtown Denver’s Daniels & Fisher tower.

By Steve Raabe
Denver Post Staff Writer

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