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Ridge protections could endanger wind power
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
By Joel Burgess • July 7, 2009 12:15 AM Legislation to get consideration today would restrict wind turbines on ridge tops from being more than 35 feet tall, ...


Ocean plan curbs uses for Buzzards Bay
SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford,MA,USA
To date, none of those communities has proposed a plan to build wind turbines offshore, he said. Smith said he plans to meet with other coastal planning ...

University should follow local lead on wind turbines
Daily Illini - Champaign,IL,USA
Invenergy, a Chicago-based company, has leased 25000 acres north of Route 74 with plans to build over 130 wind turbines next year. Local farmers have leased ...

Winds of change: Three-county wind farm project moves forward
Freeport Journal-Standard - Freeport,IL,USA
As of now, Navitas plans to build a 200 megawatt farm east of German Valley that includes approximately 100 wind turbines stretched across the three ...

More wind turbine talk at planning commission Monday night
Woodbury Bulletin - Woodbury,MN,USA
One of the items likely to get some attention is a chapter in the draft ordinance on wind turbines. The South Washington County School District has ...

Grants available for rural wind turbines
Northern Colorado Business Report - Fort Collins,CO,USA
The grants can be used to purchase and install small wind turbines or other renewable energy systems, covering up to 25 percent of the installed cost. ...

Pickens paring down wind farm project
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
In May 2008, Pickens announced that his company, Mesa Power LP, would order 687 wind turbines, or 1000 megawatts of capacity, from GE for about $2 billion. ...

Green Energy Technologies' First WindCube(R) Rooftop Wind Turbine ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The installation will be the first commercial rooftop wind turbine in Ohio to provide on-site supplemental power generation using net metering. ...

Duke plans Colorado wind farm
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
It will feature 34 wind turbines. Duke doesn't have any wind-power projects in Ohio, Kentucky or Indiana. In May, the company acquired the 70-megawatt North ...
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Wind Watch: Wind turbines
Sedgefield MP Phil Wilson's concerns over the “excessive development” of wind farms in his constituency (Echo, June 26) presumably reflect the broad views of constituents likely to be adversely affected? South Durham, basically rural in ...
National Wind Watch: News - http://www.wind-watch.org/news/

DARTMOUTH HITCHING POST: Wind turbine ballons fly tomorrow July 7
By Bill Trimble
I just this minute learned that Atlantic Design will be hoisting two balloons tomorrow (Tuesday, July 7) at the proposed sites for the wind turbines. The balloons will mark the tip of the blades for 100-meter towers and they should be ...
DARTMOUTH HITCHING POST - http://dartmouthhitcingpost.blogspot.com/

Power supplier to electric co-ops in 4 Western states signs wind ...
By Colleen Slevin
Tri-State to buy power from new Colo wind farmDENVER — A company that supplies power to rural electric cooperatives in four Western states announced Monday that it will buy electricity from a new wind farm on Colorado's Eastern Plains.
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