Wind Power News: Indiana
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IPL plans 100-megawatt wind farm
Indianapolis Power and Light hopes to become the latest Indiana utility to tap into the power of the wind.
IPL announced plans Thursday for a 100-megawatt wind farm in Benton County in the state’s northwestern corner that the company says will power about 24,000 residential homes.
State regulators must approve IPL’s proposed Hoosier Wind Project, which the company says is also contingent on Congress extending a federal renewable energy tax credit.
The Indianapolis-based utility has 468,000 central Indiana …
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Questions remain for wind energy project; Brookston board addresses feasibility issues regarding project
During a short meeting Wednesday, the Brookston Town Council took care of routine business and had only brief updates on some ongoing projects.
After approving claims for the period, President Joseph Butz stated that a meeting held Friday, April 4 with officials from the state of Indiana and Horizon Wind Energy had yielded some answers, but left a lot of questions, also.
The meeting had been to discuss the feasibility of Brookston owning some power-generating windmills or …
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3 more counties seen as fertile for wind farming
The potential for profit is driving the development of an increasing number of wind farm projects, including a proposal that would generate electricity from wind that blows across rural land south of Greater Lafayette.
nvenergy Wind North America LLC is developing the Tri-County Wind Energy Center, which is designed to place wind turbines on property in southwestern Tippecanoe, northwestern Montgomery and northeastern Fountain counties.
Typically, annual lease payments are made to landowners who agree to allow the …
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Wind farm planned for Randolph County
Horizon Wind Energy, Houston, Texas, plans to invest several hundred million dollars in Randolph County because it meets three essential requirements.
Land owners are receptive, it’s windy enough and there are existing electric-transmission lines.
In a secret-ballot vote, a group of several dozen land owners overwhelmingly chose Horizon to develop a 100 megawatt to 200 MW wind farm south of Winchester, said Randolph County Farm Bureau President Tom Chalfant.
“We essentially have the ingredients to put together a …
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Wind farm plans announced for Randolph
WINCHESTER — Houston, Texas-based Horizon Wind Energy today announced plans to build a 100-megawatt to 200-megawatt wind farm south of Winchester in Randolph County.
The company is looking at building 50-100 2-megawatt turbines around an area of 60,800 acres, leasing land from property owners, officials said.
The area where turbines will be located — which includes the towns of Huntsville, Lynn and Unionport — is bordered by U.S. 27 to the east, Ind. 1 to the west, …
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Wind farm now in the works
Group looking at 15,000 acres east of Greentown for project
A group of landowners in eastern Howard County is ready to tap into the renewable energy market — one that doesn’t involve growing corn or soybeans for fuel.
If plans and studies proceed with the needed results, 10,000 to 15,000 acres of land east of Greentown would be used for a wind farm that could produce 150 to 200 megawatts of electricity.
The area from Plevna to Hackleman …
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Do pros outweigh cons for wind power?
If eastern Allen County’s landscape has an abundance of anything, it’s nothingness. Except for an occasional tree, silo, grain elevator, barn, utility pole or steeple, there’s little to stop the late-winter wind from whipping across rich but fallow farmland.
But that very nothingness may soon lead to something big: huge windmills using 21st-century technology to generate electricity and economic growth 400 feet above land cleared by plowhorses and the strong backs and sweat of settlers.
People like …
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Wind farms could be in Boone County’s future
It isn’t a question so much of whether wind power is a practical way to produce more electricity and lower the nation’s dependence on imported petroleum. It’s how to get that wind power into the grid — the system of lines, towers, transformers and cables that end at a wall outlet or light switch.
Utilities are in the forecast business, said Mike Martin, general manager of Lebanon Utilities.
Wind power has a place on the nation’s electric …
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Wind farm coming to Randolph County
The development of a wind farm in south central Randolph County will be announced at a news conference on March 19.
Tom Chalfant, president of Randolph County Farm Bureau, declined to discuss details of the project, including its developer.
“I don’t have clearance from the company that’s doing it,” he said. “Most of the information should be coming from them.”
Indiana Michigan Power, Gamesa Corp. of Spain, and Florida Power and Light are among the wind energy developers …
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Wind ordinance to help project become reality
White County Commissioners are taking the next action in helping the county become a home for an energy wind farm as they prepare for a public meeting to review a wind ordinance.
John Heimlich, president of the White County Commissioners, announced at a regular commissioners meeting on Tuesday that the draft of the ordinance is in its final stages.
“An ordinance was created for the purpose of having a wind farm in White County,” Heimlich said. “Without …
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