GUILFORD — A revised proposal for residential wind turbines breezed through the final steps of the Planning and Zoning Commission’s approval process at Wednesday night’s meeting. Members unanimously approved the ordinance, which will allow residents to erect wind energy systems up to 120 feet tall in their yards. via Guilford OKs rules on wind turbines
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PAULSBORO, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey brownfield where once BP distributed oil may soon become one of the first places where turbines are assembled for wind farms off the Atlantic Ocean. The site is poised to become the chief benefactor of a bill signed into law Thursday by Gov. Chris Christie that will help
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New England has 12,000 megawatts of wind power potential — roughly the same amount of electricity of a dozen nuclear power plants the size of the now-defunct Maine Yankee plant — but there are active proposals for only 3,000 megawatts on the books, van Welie told The Associated Press. via New England grid chief: Cooperate
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LEBANON, Conn. — The blades on a new wind turbine in Lebanon aren’t turning yet, but when they do the turbine will begin to pump electricity into the middle school.
SHELTON — It appears a proposal to harness the power of the wind by installing a turbine at a city business has died down for now. MBI Inc. on Forrest Parkway had enlisted the services of Torrington-based Optiwind Corp. to propose regulations for the city’s first wind turbine technology, but the application for such regulations
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GUILFORD — Now that its wind power study has been concluded, the owners of Bishop’s Orchards are blowing off pricey plans to build a wind turbine on their property. “At the moment, it’s not proving out, or otherwise we would be jumping at it,” said Keith Bishop, co-owner and co-CEO of the business. via Pricey
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US-Based Renewable Energy Company’s Latest Project Set to Produce 1,550 mw of Clean, Renewable Wind Energy Terra-Gen Power has announced that it has closed a $1.2 billion financing for four wind power projects with a total of 570 megawatts of capacity at its Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County, California. The four projects, known
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The Planning and Zoning Commission voted Monday night to deny an application from Torrington-based alternative energy company Optiwind that would have amended the town's zoning regulations to permit wind turbines in rural areas. via Winsted rejects zone change for turbines The Republican-American.
GUILFORD — Concerned a proposed amendment allowing wind turbines in yards may infringe on neighbors’ property plans, the Planning and Zoning Commission has opted to edit the regulation and consider it at another meeting. Commissioners and one resident who spoke out at a public hearing Wednesday said they were concerned that the ordinance’s approval would
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GUILFORD — Pricey wind turbines haven’t gained much popularity in the state or in town. But the Planning and Zoning Commission wants to be ready in case residents want to install the equipment in their yards. A public hearing will be held at 7:30 tonight in the Nathanael B. Greene Community Center about a zoning
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The report says that “Environmental organizations” and private citizens have teamed up to file a lawsuit in an effort to block the construction of the Cape Cod Wind Farm. It continues, “A coalition of six environmental groups and three private citizens last week filed suit in federal court, claiming that federal agencies involved with the
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The benefits of generating electricity from well-sited wind power outweigh other potential impacts. Wind power produces no air or water pollution, nor does it release global warming emissions. Compared with fossil fuels like coal, the development of wind energy can provide substantial benefits to wildlife and public health.
The federal government’s approval of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm earlier this year is facing its first legal challenge. A coalition of nine individuals, environmental organizations and the project’s primary opposition group, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. They claim the U.S. Department of
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A contract between the Cape Wind offshore wind farm — which won final approval from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in April and is expected to begin generating electricity in 2013 — and the utility purchasing the energy, National Grid, would settle on an energy price that is twice current residential rates. Bill Wertz, a spokesman
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CLEVELAND — General Electric Co. announced Monday that it plans to harness the power of winds blowing across Lake Erie by developing the world’s first freshwater wind farm several miles offshore from downtown Cleveland. Connecticut-based GE and the nonprofit Lake Erie Energy Development Corp., or LEEDCo, announced a partnership to develop five wind turbines about
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When the federal government approved the Cape Wind project in April, allowing 130 power-generating turbines to be placed in the waters off Cape Cod, it gave a significant boost to the prospects of wind energy. The comparatively high costs of wind power, however, remain a problem. But MIT researchers have concluded that some of the
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General Electric Co., the world’s second-biggest maker of wind turbines, won its first order for a U.S. offshore project, to be built in Lake Erie near Cleveland. GE will supply five direct-drive turbines that can generate as much as 4 megawatts each in a project with the Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. that they expect
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WINSTED — Water and Sewer Commission Vice Chairman Stephen Vaill said members will not attend meetings of the Energy Commission as they seek zoning regulations changes that could allow for a wind turbine project at the town’s water treatment plant. via Talk of wind turbine draws response – The Register Citizen.
Conservation groups are asking the state of Oregon to make Oregon’s Steens Mountain and the congressionally protected area around it off-limits to wind energy development.
HARTFORD, Conn. — In the drive for renewable energy, Connecticut is giving up on large-scale wind power, surrendering to poor topography and the limited reach of a shoreline that stops short of the Atlantic Ocean.
