World Wind Watch | Green Energy News

June 27, 2004 – Vol.9 No.14

WORLD WIND WATCH.

Here’s a nice surprise when announcements of new, large wind projects are few and far between.

FPL Energy is planning to build own and operate a 106.5 megawatt wind farm for the prairie land of Oklahoma.

To be known as the Weatherford Wind Energy Center, the new facility will have, if built, 71, 1.5 megawatt turbines. The site near Weatherford in Custer County is over 3800 acres. All of the power will be sold to the Public Service Company of Oklahoma, a division of American Electric Power.

Weatherford will be the largest wind project in Oklahoma. Visit FPL Energy at http://www.fplenergy.com/ .

Step by step the Cape Wind offshore wind project for the coast of Massachusetts is moving forward. This week two hurdles were cleared.

First, a legal battle was won. A U.S. Federal Appeals Court reaffirmed a court decision from last year that U.S. Army Corp of Engineers had the legal authority to issue a permit for a scientific data tower already erected at the site. The site is in Federal waters, not Massachusetts.

Secondly, in a tentative decision the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) approved a permit by Cape Wind and NStar to build two,18-mile underground 115-kilovolt transmission lines along a specified route. That is, the EFSB has given an initial thumbs up to connect the Cape Wind project from the shoreline to the power grid.

It’s not easy building an offshore windfarm. Especially when it will be in the distant view of some very expensive homes. Visit Cape Wind at http://www.capewind.org/