Industrial Wind Energy News
These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They are the products of the organizations or individuals noted.
Wind farm remorse
WITI-TV — Even a child playing with a kite or a pinwheel realizes the strength of a strong breeze. Harnessing the wind to power homes is no longer something that will happen in Wisconsin, it’s happening now. FOX 6’s Ted Perry’tells you there’s also controversy blowing in the wind.
May 7, 2008
Fox 6 Milwaukee, myfoxmilwaukee.com
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PSC looking out for the consumer
Regarding Iberdrola’s proposed acquisition of Energy East, the Public Service Commission is doing exactly what it was mandated to do by the state Legislature. That is, to keep control of electricity distribution separate from electricity generation — Iberdrola’s wind developments.
Industrial wind power has not lived up to its claims in real- world operation. Conventional power plants must be kept on constant standby — using fossil fuel and emitting carbon dioxide — for when the wind …
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Controversial turbine plan is cut to four
The company behind the controversial East Stoke wind farm has cut its number of proposed turbines by a third.
Infinergy, which wanted to build six 125-metre turbines at Masters Pit, Puddletown Road, now plans just four for the site.
Project bosses say this downsize is a response to residents’ concerns, an explanation that has been rubbished by wind farm opponents.
Dorset Against Rural Turbines (Dart) president Terry Stewart said: “The main reason we are against these proposals, and …
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New wind blows: Idea to put turbines on ranch raising discussion about renewable energy
BISBEE — Dennis Maroney, owner/operator of the 47 Ranch, looks over the map that shows the thousands of acres of private and leased public land that provides food for his natural beef cattle herd.
He points to a small “x” on the slope of the northeastern section of the Mule Mountains and says that’s where Clipper Windpower plans to install an anemometer to measure wind speed and direction. Farther south, another “x” marks a less-appealing test …
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Citizens groups plan to sue NedPower Mt. Storm, Dominion Resources, Shell Wind Energy
Late last week, eleven citizens groups filed a Sixty Day Notice of Intent to Sue NedPower Mt. Storm and its corporate owners Dominion Resources, and Shell Wind Energy for violations of the Endangered Species Act involving the “takes” of the West Virginia northern flying squirrel, the Indiana bat, and the Virginia big-eared bat.
The letter, sent to the Fish and Wildlife Service, NedPower and the West Virginia Public Service Commission, also raises concerns about impacts to …
Wind power being considered
Several businesses are interested in tapping into the County of Grande Prairie’s wind potential to generate electricity, the county’s economic development officer said last week in his report to county council.
It could take one to three years before a windmill appears in the county’s landscape but, if it goes ahead, it would be a first for the county, possibly even for northwestern Alberta.
Walter Paszkowski presented county council with a map showing the key potential sites …
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Wind energy project proposed
A “green” project may be popping up out of the green fields of northeastern Pottawattamie County this summer.
MidAmerican Energy is looking at the area as a site to build 64 wind turbines, a project that county officials said could be worth more than $120 million and generate about 96 megawatts of electricity.
The Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors will schedule a public hearing on tax incentives for the project in the next few weeks. If the …
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Windmill fire causes $750,000 in damage
Fire caused an estimated $750,000 in damage to a windmill on Thursday, the Palm Springs Fire Deparment said today.
Firefighters were called out about 5:55 p.m. to Windmill Farms a mile south of Interstate 10. The top portion of the windmill was on fire and several small spot fires happened because of falling debris.
The fire is under investigation.
Desert Sun staff
The Desert Sun
9 May 2008
Turbines on the march
Annandale and Eskdale is seeing the winds of change on its landscape.
In a multi-million pound investment the area now has 20 wind turbines fully operational and generating electricity.
And, in coming years, that figure could rise to 372 across the district.
Airtricity Development Scotland has announced its 16-turbine windfarm at Risp Hill on Minsca Farm between Waterbeck and Lockerbie is now fully operational after its commissioning phase and testing period.
They join four turbines already working in a …
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Climate change plea from tribe of herders who face extinction
In another threat, wind turbines and hydroelectric dams have sprung up in reindeer herding areas that had been protected, cutting grazing and forcing the Sami off their traditional land.
Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. So was his father. And his father’s father. He is a member of the Sami community, one of the largest indigenous groups remaining in Europe, and his family have been herding reindeer in the same stretch of the Norwegian Arctic since the …
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