LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

Get weekly updates
RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Stripe

Donate via Paypal

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Invenergy: Turbines running by spring 

BROWNSVILLE – Invenergy Wind LLC plans to have 86 turbines operating by May at the $250 million Forward Wind Energy Center.

Mick Baird, project manager for the Chicago-based firm, said General Electric has started commissioning and testing 34 turbines throughout the 50-square-mile project area in northern Dodge and southern Fond du Lac counties.

“We look forward to getting to the next step and providing renewable power to four state utilities,” he said.

Those companies – Wisconsin Power & Light Co. of Madison, Madison Gas & Electric Co. of Madison, Wisconsin Public Power Inc. of Sun Prairie and Wisconsin Public Service Corp. of Green Bay – have purchased a combined 129 megawatts of electricity.

Baird said each of the 86 turbines will provide enough power for about 350 to 500 homes.

But Joe Breaden, president of Horicon Marsh Systems Advocates, a group opposing the wind farm project because they say it would lead to thousands of bird kills, questioned the figures.

“Are these guys on crack?” he said. “Those statistics could only happen if these things are 100 percent efficient and the wind blows 24/7 at a very usable speed.”

Baird said the remaining 47 wind turbines will become operational later, but Breaden argued that the timetable keeps changing.

“It’s one lie after another,” he said. “They said this wind factory was supposed to have already been in operation two years ago.”

The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin on July 14, 2005, issued a Certificate of Public Convenience & Necessity for the Forward Wind Energy Center that would allow up to 133 wind turbines to be built in the Brownsville area.

“Right now our focus is on construction and completing this (the 86 turbines) in a timely manner for our power purchasers and then we’ll look at future phases,” Baird said.

Since October, truckloads of massive equipment – most of it from the Port of Menomonee – have arrived daily and three cranes have erected the 389-foot high turbines with a 250-foot blade sweep throughout the site.

“They’re hideous,” Breaden said. “They remind me of ‘The War of the Worlds.’ They’re alien. They don’t belong here and anybody who doesn’t see that has dollar signs in their eyes.”

By Brian Paynter
Staff Reporter

Beaver Dam Daily Citizen

14 January 2008

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Contributions
   Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)
Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI M TG TS G Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook Wind Watch on Linked In

Wind Watch on Mastodon Wind Watch on Truth Social

Wind Watch on Gab Wind Watch on Bluesky