Description:

Dan Boone created this image using the digital USGS 7.5-minute topographic map mosaic for Grant County, WV (from NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway) and plotted the wind turbine locations based on the lat-long coordinates provided in FAA's 7460-1 database for this facility in 2006 and for turbines planned in 2002 - e.g.,
https://www.oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaaEXT/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=460650 (2006) and
https://www.oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaaEXT/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=242479 (2002) .
Note that the 82 wind turbines proposed to FAA in 2006 are slated to be 388 feet in overall height (from ground level to highest point of rotor). There were 155 wind turbines proposed to FAA in 2002. However, in 2003 the WV Public Service Commission did not approve the southern phase of NedPower’s proposed windplant due to concerns over visual impact to Dolly Sods Wilderness Area. Nonetheless, NedPower’s windplant was authorized by the WV PSC to construct up to 200 industrial wind turbines in the central and northern portions of the project area so long as the project’s total generating capacity did not exceed 300 MW. NedPower sold its development rights to this windplant in 2006 to Shell’s wind energy division.

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