{"id":382581,"date":"2026-07-22T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382581\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:28:11","slug":"canyon-texas-home-to-the-tallest-wind-turbine-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382581\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyon, Texas: Home to the tallest wind turbine in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CANYON, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The wind in the Texas Panhandle has been pushing people around for centuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But Canyon, Texas has something big enough to put that bully to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Long before electricity, that same wind helped shape life on the high plains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Beginning in the late 1800s, ranchers planted thousands of windmills, not to generate power, but to pump water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Without them, there would have been no ranches, no farms, and very little reason to settle here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For generations, folks in the Texas Panhandle have viewed the wind as both friend and foe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Then, in 2018, just east of Canyon, engineers at West Texas A&amp;M\u2019s wind test facility built the 653-foot GW3S, the tallest wind turbine in the USA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The same wind that humbled homesteaders bent the trees sideways and carries the scent of Hereford\u2019s feedlots for miles, now powers thousands of homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Out here, the wind is relentless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But the people of Canyon, Texas know how to put it to work.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANYON, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The wind in the Texas Panhandle has been pushing people around for centuries. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-382581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}