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DETROIT, Mich. — Gov. Jennifer Granholm gave the keynote address at this year’s wind energy conference and took the opportunity to announce over $15 million in new Recovery Act funding for the state to be directed towards renewable energy. “We are not just content in Michigan to be making wind turbines,” Granholm said at the Cobo Center, located in downtown Detroit. “Michigan is going to be the place to solve the problems for the wind industry.”

One problem she touched on was the “reliability issue” of wind turbine gearboxes: she said that Merrill Tool and Machine of Merrill, Mich. is working on a solution.

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Edison Mission Group starts up $300m Texas wind farm A new $300 million wind farm has begun commercial operations in the southern Texas town of Bruni.

Wind developer Edison Mission Group (EMG) said today that it has completed and started up the 150-megawatt Cedro Hill wind project at a 20,000-acre site in Webb County, about 40 miles east of Laredo.

The wind farm comprises 100 GE wind turbines, each capable of generating 1.5MW of power each.

EMG, a subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX) is selling power from the new wind farm to San Antonio utility CPS Energy through a 20-year power …

The Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council gave its approval of the site of a wind farm billed to be the largest in the world.

The Shepherd’s Flat Wind Farm, which would span Gilliam and Morrow counties in north-central Oregon, is proposed to have 303 wind turbines with a peak capacity of 909 megawatts — instantly doubling the state’s current wind-generated capacity of 889 megawatts, making it one of the largest wind farms in the country.

“This is a tremendous day for renewable energy in Oregon,” Michael Grainey, director of the Oregon Department of Energy, said in a news release.

The project is being developed by Caithness …

NRG Energy Begins Construction On Second West Texas Wind Farm
File image. by Staff Writers Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 28, 2008 NRG Energy through its wholly owned subsidiary, Padoma Wind Power, has begun construction on the Elbow Creek Wind Project, a 122 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Howard County near Big Spring, Texas. “Adding Elbow Creek to NRG’s generation fleet increases our portfolio fuel diversity in Texas,” said Jan Paulin, Senior Vice President, …

STATUS: In progress, with opposition

TYPE: Wind

OPPOSITION: Neighboring landowners; California Department of Fish and Game

PROSPECTS: Likely

BACKGROUND: Pacific Renewable Energy Generation, a unit of Spanish conglomerate Acciona S.A. (ANA.MC), wants to build an 83-megawatt wind farm on a coastal hillside in rural Lompoc, CA. The company signed a 20-year contract with PG&E Corp. (PCG) utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and won approval for the project from the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission. The 65-turbine project, spread out over …

A wind farm (often also called a wind park) is as a cluster of wind turbines that acts and is connected to the power system as a single electricity producing power station.

Generally it is expected that a wind farm consists of more than three wind turbines. Modern wind farms may have capacities in the order of hundreds of megawatts, and are installed offshore as well as on land. Modern wind farms generally are connected to the high voltage transmission system, in contrast to the early application of wind energy for electricity production with wind turbines …

FPL Energy and Minnesota Power Dedicate North Dakota Wind Farm

CENTER, N.D. — FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group (NYSE:FPL) and Minnesota Power, an operating division of ALLETE, Inc. today joined about 200 guests near Center to dedicate FPL Energy’s Oliver County Wind Energy Center in Oliver County, North Dakota.

North Dakota Governor John Hoeven was among the dignitaries who joined FPL Energy’s Vice President of Business Management Ron Scheirer and ALLETE, Inc. Chairman, President, and CEO Don Shippar and more than 200 local and regional guests to celebrate the commercial operation of the Oliver County Wind Energy …

Wind farm proposed for Texas City Published March 5, 2009

TEXAS CITY An energy company is considering adding as many as 30 windmills to the Texas City skyline.

City commissioners on Wednesday approved a resolution supporting a study by Duke Energy of the feasibility of building a windmill farm at the site of the county water reservoir at state Highway 146 near Attwater Road in north Texas City.

The cost of the project is estimated at more than $200 million, with royalties from the energy sales going to the Gulf Coast Water Authority, which owns the …

From Wikipedia San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm Location of San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm Country United States Locale Riverside County, California Coordinates 33 54′53.532″N 116 35′18.348″W / 33.91487 N 116.58843 W / 33.91487; -116.58843Coordinates: 33 54′53.532″N 116 35′18.348″W / 33.91487 N 116.58843 W / 33.91487; -116.58843 Status Operational Construction began 1980s Turbine information …

… hard. There were intense debates and politics was done on the issue. Finally very first offshore wind farm to generate electricity has been approved. As announced in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Mr.