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Wind Power News: September 2005
These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.
Wind energy month: What does that mean?
It suggests a welcoming atmosphere for the industrial wind developers who are gauging the state's appetite for wind towers on our ridgelines.
That's not the intent of the proclamation, according to Jason Gibbs, the governor's spokesman. It's about promoting renewable energy in general, and small wind power projects specifically -- on "a Vermont scale."
PSC hearing on wind plant draws crowd; Majority strongly opposed
More than 100 residents of Garrett County and points well beyond were on hand for a 3-hour public comment meeting hosted by the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) at Southern High School last Thursday evening, Sept. 22. The session was designed to garner public input on an application to the PSC by Annapolis-based Synergics Energy Services to place 17 wind turbines, each reaching a total height of over 400 feet, atop Backbone Mountain at its proposed Roth Rock Wind Facility. . . . Complete story »
Some errors concerning Danish energy
..because the turbines produce power in response to the wind rather than actual demand, much of it -- 84% of western Denmark's wind production in 2003, by one analysis -- has to be exported (i.e., dumped) because it is not needed. Despite a landscape already saturated with turbines, it appears therefore that they produce only about 3% of the electricity Denmark uses. Complete story »
Wind energy projects under way in Ga.
Bulpitt said preliminary results at the research platforms off the Georgia coast are showing average wind speeds of 16 miles an hour. Complete story »
Scientists Conduct Wind Energy Projects
But initial results from the first two months of the study are showing the area has slow wind speeds of 6 to 10 mph. Complete story »
More on Wind
Uncertainty rules in windfarm politics. What is clear is that opponents come from the left and from the right -- and that neither side knows the true effects of 400-foot turbines built on 4,000-foot Appalachian ridges. Complete story »
Wind industry a powerful foe in energy debate
What are we in Highland to make of these statements and actions? Clearly, these men have a stake in seeing turbines on Highland’s ridges. Rather than responsibly considering the bird and bat impacts in any sort of serious way, they go to great lengths to stifle or belittle credible research recommending that wind turbines be put on hold until bat mortality can be understood and mitigated and until bird impacts can be studied.
Complete story »State agencies get weight on their shoulders
No matter how much tax revenue the utility might add to county coffers, money cannot replace the hard-to-quantify scenic landscapes and cumulative effects of such projects in the Appalachian highlands. Complete story »
Wind makes waves over Horicon
Some of the turbines of the 200- megawatt project could be within two miles of the border of the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, a refuge that was named by the National Wildlife Refuge Association as one of the nation's six most threatened refuges. Complete story »
Paper tiger vs. hard facts
The Bennington Banner (editorial, Sept. 8) appears to think that those who oppose industrial wind power plants on the ridgelines prefer nuclear radiation, coal smoke, and mercury poisoning. They have created a paper tiger and missed the real argument. Complete story »