CORPUS CHRISTI - A hypothetical layout for a planned wind farm near Chapman Ranch was deemed hazardous by the Federal Aviation Administration this month.
Apex Clean Energy filed a plan of hypothetical wind turbine locations with the administration to collect information for the development of the project design, said company spokeswoman Dahvi Wilson.
The turbine locations in the filing are outdated and the project has since changed, she said, adding the plans were submitted to the federal agency before Apex's decision to withdraw all wind turbines from the Corpus Christi city limits last year.
"Since that time, our plans for the project layout have evolved, and a revised and much smaller layout, consisting of significantly fewer wind turbines, will be filed with the (administration)," she said.
The project has been in the works for more than five years.
Before City Council adopted a formal resolution opposing its construction, and annexed 16 square miles at the proposed site to gain regulatory authority, the company hoped construction would be complete by the end of this year.
The earliest proposed project — construction of about 175 turbines on about 20,000 acres with capacity to power 100,000 homes — would have kicked off in March.
Findings of the aeronautical study Apex filed the plans for indicate that 175 of the wind turbines on the layout exceed obstruction standards and are presumed to be a hazard to air navigation, according to the hazard notices posted on the Aviation Administration's website.
Details about the revised plan were not available Friday.
But Apex is moving forward with the project, Wilson said.
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