World Wind Watch | Green Energy News

November 2, 2003 – Vol.8 No.32

WORLD WIND WATCH.

If the world had corners it could be said that new wind farms are popping up in every corner.

NEG-Micon will supply 55 NM 72 turbines for a new wind facility at Te Apiti on the North Island of New Zealand. The facility is being built by the state-owned Meridian Energy, New Zealand’s largest electric generator. That company also said that another 50 NM 82 turbines have been ordered from NEG-Micon for a project at Wattle Point in South Australia and Meridian, too, has entered into an agreement with them to supply 600-megawatts in turbine name plate capacity during the next six years.

Visit Meridian Energy at http://www.meridianenergy.co.nz/ , NEG-Micon at http://www.neg-micon.com/

Three new wind projects are slated for the State of Wisconsin: the 80-megawatt, Green Field farm in the Town of Marshfield to be built by Navitas Energy, another Navitas project the 80-megawatt Blue Sky project near Calumet, and a 54-megawatt project to be built by Midwest Wind Energy.

Of the three, the Green Field project should be of particular interest to municipalities where wind energy is proposed. The Town of Marshfield and Navitas have signed a Joint Development Agreement - not a permit to build - for that project. Agreement says that if Navitas meets certain legal and siting obligations, such as property setbacks, then the town will issue all the permits for the project. In other words, do what you say you’re going to do,then we’ll let you build it. Visit Navitas at http://www.windpower.com/ .

Small but not insignificant. The State of Ohio’s first utility scale wind farm is now online. The AMP-Ohio/Green Mountain Energy 3.6 megawatt facility near the city of Bowling Green has been dedicated. The project, built at the site of a landfill dump, is owned by partners American Municipal Power-Ohio http://www.amp-ohio.org/ and Green Mountain Energy http://www.greenmountainenergy.com/