The 120-foot long, 8.2-ton blade...
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Posted on 06/15/2007 3:13:33 PM PDT by george76
The $700 million project in Logan County will be the third-largest in the nation, producing 400 megawatts with 267 turbines.
Developers broke ground Wednesday on a $700 million wind farm in northeast Colorado that will be the nation's third-largest wind generator.
FPL Energy and Invenergy Wind will develop the 400-megawatt project, which will yield enough power to supply about 120,000 homes.
Xcel Energy will buy the facility's entire electric output. Combined with purchases from three other wind farms, the Peetz Table project will allow Xcel to meet the requirements of Colorado's renewable-energy standard seven years early.
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
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The drink was pretty good, I read the title as:
broken wind on huge farm
And clicked on it anyways. Think I'm about done for today. Have a good one! : )
The 120-foot long, 8.2-ton blade...
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There are not a lot of people in NE Colorado ...
—and plenty of Wyoming coal to the north for the backup conventional power plant-—
There's at least two HUGE (and I mean HUGE) wind mills in SW Wyoming, not far from the UT border.....way bigger than the ones I've seen in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Plenty of wind, too.
Vestas Americas, a division of Vestas Wind Systems, officially started construction Thursday on its first U.S. manufacturing plant in the Great Western Industrial Park, east of the Colorado Division of Kodak in Windsor. When complete, the 200,000-square-foot plant will produce 1,200 blades a year...
The plant, said Ole Borup Jacobsen, president of Vestas Blades, will be in full operation within eight months and will operate seven days a week, 24 hours per day, manufacturing not only the 120-foot wind turbine blades but 132-foot blades as well.
Michael Jacobsen, project manager for the Windsor plant, said the facility will be comprised of four product lines, 500 feet in length that can produce one blade every 24 hours each. In addition, there will be a 400-foot long finishing line and a painting facility.
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20070615/NEWS/106140111
Texas is number 1 in wind.
20 states account for almost 99% of all U.S .wind power capacity, Mr. Styles notes. Within that group, just six states account for 76% of 2006 additions and 72% of total capacity, with Texas, California, Minnesota and Washington making both lists.
Of course Kennedy and Kerry won’t say anything. Remember, Edwards pointed out to us that there are two Americas. One for the elitists, and one for the rest of us. Teddy and Kerry belong to the first one.
The nation’s largest wind farm, providing 736 megawatts, is in Taylor County, Texas...
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy07osti/41435.pdf
Here is the report
Texas 2739 Megawatts
Calif 2379 “
and now, for the Angus part of the report
Massachusetts 4 Megawatts
The second-largest is a 505-megawatt project in Sweetwater, Texas, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
Thanks.
Islands would seem to be an excellent place for wind energy.
Not just for electrical production but also transmission lines would be very short ?
if they really want to harness a never-ending source of wind, they need to mount a few of these around Capitol Hill...
This could very well prove to be the most efficient bird killer ever devised.
It's the chili.
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