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		<title>New transmission line project means new opportunities for wind development</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/04/new-transmission-line-project-means-new-opportunities-for-wind-development/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[VALENTINE — Opportunities for wind energy in Nebraska took a huge leap forward earlier this week. The Southwest Power Pool approved a plan to construct a high-voltage transmission line from the Gerald Gentleman power plant near Sutherland north into Cherry County and then east throughout much of the northern Nebraska. The plan (known as the “r-plan” for its shape) was proposed by the Nebraska Transmission Advocacy Group and coordinated by the Nebraska Public Power District, the Lincoln Electric System and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/06/wind-energy-concerns/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[I have read the Hub’s recent feature on wind energy. There are some problems with wind energy which need more attention, and are not much discussed among wind promoters. The article emphasized the role of transmission of wind energy, but failed to mention that wind energy is an inefficient user of transmission capacity. The transmission lines, substations, etc., must be built with the capacity for the nameplate capacity of the generators, but in operation only about 35 to 45 percent .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Siting new wind farm a lengthy, complex process with four key factors to consider</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/27/siting-new-wind-farm-a-lengthy-complex-process-with-four-key-factors-to-consider/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[KEARNEY — When Tom Swierczewski goes “prospecting” for wind farm sites, wind quality isn’t the first consideration on his checklist. High-quality wind throughout the Midwest means developers can choose from hundreds, maybe thousands, of locations just in Nebraska. “Economically, you could probably do a project just about anywhere,” Swierczewski said at last week’s Nebraska Wind Conference in Kearney. Key factors for his company, Chicago-based Midwest Wind Energy, are a site’s proximity to a transmission line and securing a power purchase .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Is wind farm OK for Sand Hills?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/25/is-wind-farm-ok-for-sand-hills/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Nebraska Legislature passed legislation to protect the Sand Hills and the Ogallala Aquifer from the Keystone XL pipeline. At the same time, an energy expert from out-of-state suggested that Nebraska should get heavily into the business of using wind power for the generation of electricity. I hope the legislation is broad enough to protect the Sand Hills and the Ogallala Aquifer from any activity that could be detrimental to either. I think the construction of a large wind turbine .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Work starts on wind energy project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/03/work-starts-on-wind-energy-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Traveling down Highway 70 east of Broken Bow, you might miss the small orange sign marking the turnoff for construction vehicles. The sign seems insignificant; you might not even notice it most days, the gravel and dirt road seems like any other country road. What lies down the road is far from insignificant. The construction project along this road is, in fact, one of the largest civil engineering projects Custer County has ever seen. This is the location of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Meteorological tower to be erected soon</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/10/14/meteorological-tower-to-be-erected-soon/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Tangible evidence of a wind farm south of Gothenburg and Cozad is expected the end of the month. A meteorological tower to track wind speed and other data will be erected in a remote location five miles east and two miles north of Farnam. Kyle Simmons, lead developer for Geronimo Wind Energy, shared that information Thursday night in Eustis as the wind gusted more than 60 mph. Property owners whose land is in the path of the Dawson Wind Farm .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Dawson County board approves wind tower</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/09/02/dawson-county-board-approves-wind-tower/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[LEXINGTON — The Dawson County Board of Commissioners approved building a meteorological tower in southwest Dawson County Thursday. The tower will be 197 feet tall and will be used to measure wind velocities and direction in anticipation of a 50-tower wind farm proposed by Geronimo Wind Energy of Edina, Minn. The tower will be five miles east and two miles north of Farnam. Geronimo representative Charlie Daum said the tower would remain in place five years or more. The wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power vs. whooping crane on the prairie?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/07/21/wind-power-vs-whooping-crane-on-the-prairie/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The term of art is incidental take. It refers to the “harassment, harm, pursuit, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, capture, or collection of any threatened or endangered species.” Incidental take is in the news now because the Obama administration has given notice that it is evaluating issuing an incidental take permit (ITP) – a free pass of sorts – in a 200-mile-wide corridor from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico where whooping cranes migrate. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The reality of wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/07/06/the-reality-of-wind-power-2/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines cost more to operate and maintain than planned, often have poor reliability, and place costly strains on other generators warns one early wind adopter, but so far the public is willing to bear the costs. Kevin Gaden, wholesale power director for the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN) and NMPP Energy, a public power consortium covering parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming and Colorado, detailed his members&#8217; experiences at the American Public Power Association conference in Washington last week. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The reality of wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/27/the-reality-of-wind-power-3/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines cost more to operate and maintain than planned, often have poor reliability, and place costly strains on other generators warns one early wind adopter, but so far the public is willing to bear the costs. Kevin Gaden, wholesale power director for the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN) and NMPP Energy, a public power consortium covering parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming and Colorado, detailed his members&#8217; experiences at the American Public Power Association conference in Washington last week. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Second tower to measure wind in Thayer County</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/23/second-tower-to-measure-wind-in-thayer-county/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[THAYER COUNTY — A second meteorological tower soon should be erected for a second wind farm project here. The project is known as Aether Energy LLC. Project organizer Gary Aksamit, a Texas-based energy broker who grew up in Alexandria, announced last week in a news release that Aether will begin construction of the meteorological tower the second week of July. Met towers measure the amount of wind present in an area and provide an indication of how much electricity may .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Large wind farm planned in Wayne County</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/22/large-wind-farm-planned-in-wayne-county/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A U.S. company and one from Germany are teaming up to build a wind farm near Winside in northeast Nebraska that would be among the state&#8217;s largest. Way Wind LLC of Madison, Wis., and Nordex USA of Frankfurt, Germany, want to put 48 turbines on up to 8,000 acres of land south of the Wayne County town. The combined output would be 120 megawatts, or enough power for 46,500 homes. Currently, the largest wind farms operating in the state produce .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Public hearing set for commercial wind farm regulations</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/03/25/public-hearing-set-for-commercial-wind-farm-regulations/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Lancaster County residents will get a chance to comment Tuesday on proposed regulations for commercial wind farms. Although companies have inquired about building commercial wind farms near Hallam and in the northern part of the county, there are no projects on the drawing board at this time, said Mike DeKalb, a planner with the City-County Planning Department. A public hearing on the proposed regulations will be held during the county board&#8217;s Tuesday meeting set to begin at 5 p.m. on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy snarls</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/03/08/wind-energy-snarls/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Windmills have been used for centuries to pump water out of the lowlands, but The Netherlands is conflicted over the installation of gleaming, new 650-foot monsters along shorelines that formerly were dominated by picturesque, wooden, four-bladed versions. They’re noisy, opponents say, and will disrupt the tranquil panorama. Birds will be traumatized, fishing will be endangered and tourism will dwindle. Last year, nearly 10,000 megawatts of wind power was installed across the European Union, making a total of 84,000 megawatts, or .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons to learn from the land of windmills</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/02/25/lessons-to-learn-from-the-land-of-windmills/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Nebraska, which has the fourth best wind resources in the nation, is catching up, thanks to recent and possible future actions by the Legislature. Last year, Nebraska lawmakers made it possible for wind producers to export electricity from wind farms in our state to other states. This year, the Unicameral is considering a bill to provide sales tax incentives, beginning in 2015, to lower the sales tax on wind turbines and towers for projects that contribute stock to employee ownership .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed fees for windmill generator permits rise sharply</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/02/22/proposed-fees-for-windmill-generator-permits-rise-sharply/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Nebraska City, Neb. — Otoe County Zoning Administrator Dave Schmitz said he increased proposed permits for wind generator towers after Thursday&#8217;s public hearing in Syracuse. The county&#8217;s planning commission held the hearing regarding a 12-page document containing proposed zoning regulations for windmills. The regulations require a building permit for all wind energy systems. A fee of $250 had been proposed for the permit, but Schmitz said Tuesday the proposed fee has been raised to $1,000 for turbines generating 100 kilowatt .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed fees for windmill generator permits rise sharply</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/02/22/proposed-fees-for-windmill-generator-permits-rise-sharply-2/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Nebraska City, Neb. — Otoe County Zoning Administrator Dave Schmitz said he increased proposed permits for wind generator towers after Thursday&#8217;s public hearing in Syracuse. The county&#8217;s planning commission held the hearing regarding a 12-page document containing proposed zoning regulations for windmills. The regulations require a building permit for all wind energy systems. A fee of $250 had been proposed for the permit, but Schmitz said Tuesday the proposed fee has been raised to $1,000 for turbines generating 100 kilowatt .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Public hearing scheduled on windmill turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/02/14/public-hearing-scheduled-on-windmill-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Nebraska City, Neb. — Otoe County&#8217;s 12-page document intended to govern windmill electricity generators is scheduled for a final public hearing at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Syracuse City Hall. Otoe County Zoning Administrator David Schmitz said he believes the proposed regulations provide a fair balance between the concerns of homeowners and openness for wind turbines. He said Otoe County has so many houses ideal locations for windmill generators are limited. &#8220;It&#8217;s probably not the best place for a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>City planners prepare for future wind generation issues</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/01/20/city-planners-prepare-for-future-wind-generation-issues/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[McCOOK, Nebraska &#8212; A zoning ordinance amendment approved by the McCook City Council Monday evening, only allows for domestic use wind turbines to be built in the agricultural district, but may be a stepping stone for the energy producers to one day be allowed within city limits. Other Nebraska cities such as Grand Island have already put similar ordinances in place and have done so with the intent of promoting safe, efficient and effective use of wind energy. Today, a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Utility skeptical about wind power&#8217;s potential</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/01/20/utility-skeptical-about-wind-powers-potential/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Rolland Skinner is all for energy conservation and the use of renewable resources. What Skinner, manager of Northwest Rural Public Power District, is against, he says, is subsidizing one person at the expense of others. In this case he’s talking about a concept called net metering, which would pay residential windmill owners for generating excess electricity. Proponents say Nebraska rural customers could generate much of their own electricity with small windmills and recover their costs if utilities were willing to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Officials working to keep birds, wind farms off collision course</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/01/04/officials-working-to-keep-birds-wind-farms-off-collision-course/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Nebraska Legislature gave the green light last year to projects that export wind energy from a state of prominent and largely unharnessed wind potential. It remains to be seen to what extent Nebraska&#8217;s equally prominent place in the Midwest&#8217;s migratory flyway for whooping cranes and other bird species will become a red light. Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Grand Island and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission say they have a strategy in place that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power could put birds at risk</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/12/30/wind-power-could-put-birds-at-risk/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[One of the nation&#8217;s largest bird conservation groups says rapid construction of wind energy projects will endanger several avian species. That includes the whooping crane, a famous migratory bird and annual visitor to central Nebraska. Officials with American Bird Conservancy on Wednesday cited data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that estimates 400,000 birds of various species are killed by turbine blades annually. The conservation group&#8217;s concerns come as state and national officials push to expand wind energy development .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind export law can cope with economy, observers say</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/12/28/wind-export-law-can-cope-with-economy-observers-say/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Invenergy, the first wind-power company to take advantage of Nebraska&#8217;s new wind export law, has been running into some economic headwinds recently in Virginia and other states. In some cases, state regulators wrestling with recessionary concerns have been unwilling to give the go-ahead to proposals to sell wind power because of the impact on utility rates. But Chicago-based Invenergy already has the go-ahead from the Nebraska Power Review Board for its $448 million Prairie Breeze project, which calls for as .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Grand Island enters new wind power agreement</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/12/19/grand-island-enters-new-wind-power-agreement/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Grand Island city leaders agreed this week to join a new wind energy project &#8212; the fourth the city has joined in the past 12 years. But not everyone supports the city&#8217;s dabbling in renewable energy. Ward 1 Councilman Randy Gard, who took office Tuesday night, questioned why the city would want to participate in the Laredo Ridge Wind Project near Petersburg. He may be a political newcomer, but Gard is the recently retired chief executive officer of the multimillion-dollar .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Company says it’s looking at area for wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/12/16/company-says-its-looking-at-area-for-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[YORK — A wind energy company working out of Lincoln may be considering York County for the location of a future wind farm . . . at least at this point, it’s a possibility. Jennifer Korgie and Jesus Martin of Green Capital Power addressed the commissioners this week, “to let you know we’re looking at this area for a commercial wind facility into the future.” Korgie noted they’ve been looking at a number of locations throughout the state. She also .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New regulations proposed to address commercial wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/12/03/new-regulations-proposed-to-address-commercial-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Lancaster County Board of Commissioners is looking at amending its zoning regulations to cover commercial wind farms. In 2008, the County Board approved a zoning change that allows small wind turbines to be built on homes, acreages and farms in rural areas, but commercial wind farms were not addressed. The county decided to take another look at those regulations after a developer this summer expressed interest in building a 30-turbine wind farm near Hallam, about 25 miles southwest of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Plans for wind farm blow into Dawson County</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/11/18/plans-for-wind-farm-blow-into-dawson-county/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Land will be leased along southern edge for lines, towers. A $150 to $200 million wind energy farm is planned along the southern edge of Dawson County. Geronimo Wind Energy of Edina, MN, plans to bury transmission lines and erect wind turbines on farm and pasture land along the southern edge of Dawson County between Gothenburg and Cozad. Representatives of the company have met with landowners, including several from Gothenburg, in the area since June about leasing ground for the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Landowners: Education is key to wind power benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/11/14/landowners-education-is-key-to-wind-power-benefits/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[KEARNEY — There’s a steep learning curve for landowners interested in attracting wind power projects, landowner group leaders said at this week’s Nebraska Wind Power 2010 Conference in Kearney. “You’re gonna have to have persistence to go on,” said David Vavra of the Saline County Wind Association. Landowners from six Saline County precincts joined his group. Vavra said developers are interested in contiguous properties, so significant numbers of participants are need to support a project. An early question for group .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>No neat rows: Near Broken Bow, wind turbines will be scattered across acres of pasture</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/11/14/no-neat-rows-near-broken-bow-wind-turbines-will-be-scattered-across-acres-of-pasture/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[KEARNEY — An aerial view may be the only way to get a true picture of the 80-megawatt wind energy project that will be built east of Broken Bow over the next two years. Rather than locate dozens of large white three-bladed turbines in the same area like an oversized flower garden, contractors will plant one here and one there on the tops of some of Nebraska’s windiest hills. In an early summer, they may look like irregular white stitches .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>LES&#8217; lightning-struck turbine gets more repairs</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/10/20/les-lightning-struck-turbine-gets-more-repairs/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[On Monday, contractors began work that will complete repairs to one of Lincoln Electric System&#8217;s two wind turbines northeast of the city. The turbine was struck by lightning in May. Initial inspections revealed a split on the outer tip of one blade. The 2-foot-long split was repaired by LES and Vestas, the turbine&#8217;s manufacturer with which LES has a service agreement, at an estimated cost of $45,000. The unit was returned to service June 1. Then, a Vestas inspection revealed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Sioux County studying wind power regulations</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/10/06/sioux-county-studying-wind-power-regulations/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The county commissioners and the county’s zoning board are considering zoning regulations to govern the installation of wind generation systems. After a public hearing in July, the zoning board recommended approving the regulations to the commissioners. Now the commissioners must schedule their own public hearing on the issue. They discussed the issue briefly at their meeting Friday. Deputy county attorney Joe Stecher explained some of Nebraska’s wind regulation legislation to the commissioners, pointing out that state law currently forbids changing .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bill aims at more wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/09/29/bill-aims-at-more-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind power generation efforts in Nebraska have been slowed historically by the fact that the state’s utilities are publicly owned and ineligible for federal tax incentives given to private utilities. A bill introduced this week by Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., aims to change that — allowing public power utilities access to the same incentives as their private competitors in other states. “With access to these energy development tax incentives, our nonprofit public power utilities will be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind not in NPPD&#8217;s 2010 plans</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/09/09/wind-not-in-nppds-2010-plans/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[LINCOLN — The state&#8217;s largest utility has decided against adding more large-scale wind-energy projects this year as it considers raising retail rates by 11 percent. The decision by the Nebraska Public Power District doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean tough sledding for the state&#8217;s overall goal of developing wind farms that export power to other states, officials said. While the recession has depressed the demand for electricity, lowered the profits from selling excess energy and made it tougher to borrow money, wind developers .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Nebraska resists wind companies&#8217; &#8216;green&#8217; urgings</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/08/19/nebraska-resists-wind-companies-green-urgings/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[LINCOLN — Two of the nation’s largest wind-energy developers said Tuesday that Nebraska could jump-start the lagging development of wind here with one simple yet controversial step — adopt a renewable energy standard, to require the use of “green” energy. Developers from Minnesota and Kansas said that would demonstrate Nebraska is serious about developing its under-used wind resources. Such mandates have been adopted in at least 29 states, including Iowa. Minnesota, for instance, mandates that 25 percent of its power .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>NPPD head: Wind not enough to sustain state’s energy needs</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/08/17/nppd-head-wind-not-enough-to-sustain-states-energy-needs/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[COLUMBUS — If the Nebraska landscape was covered with wind farms, the energy produced would not sustain the state’s energy needs, according to Ron Asche during a presentation Tuesday to the Columbus Noon Rotary. Providing Nebraska Public Power District’s (NPPD) position on energy generated from wind, Asche, NPPD president and CEO, highlighted reasons wind energy may provide supplemental support, but it will never become a primary source for generation. “Look outside, there is not a lot of wind. You can .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm proposed near Ogallala</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/08/17/wind-farm-proposed-near-ogallala/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[LINCOLN &#8212; A Michigan firm is proposing a $20 million wind farm southeast of Ogallala, Neb. The firm, Green Oak Renewables of Bad Axe, Mich., said in a press release that the 10 megawatt project would require purchases of $4 million in local materials and labor, and pay $35,000 a year in local property taxes. Green Oak plans to present its proposal to the Nebraska Public Power District on Sept. 1. The project would be a big economic boost for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Lightning strikes Elkhorn Ridge wind turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/08/10/lightning-strikes-elkhorn-ridge-wind-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Lightning struck a turbine at the Elkhorn Ridge wind farm near Bloomfield Sunday afternoon. There were no injuries, but a turbine blade was damaged, said Susan Olavarria, a spokeswoman for Edison Mission Energy, in an e-mail. The turbine was off-line for repairs. The Bloomfield Fire Department responded to the emergency call, but the small fire burned itself out. In late 2008, an explosion and fire in a turbine injured three workers during construction of the Elkhorn Ridge wind farm in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind integration study completed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Statewide study evaluates impact on other generating resources from adding wind generation. LINCOLN, Neb. – The Nebraska Power Association’s Board of Directors today published results of a year-long, statewide study that determined various cost and operational impacts of adding large amounts of wind-powered generation to the state’s electric power grid. The study group looked at what it would cost to integrate wind-powered resources into the state’s existing generation mix at much higher levels than exists today. The specific levels evaluated .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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