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Wind energy standards bill gaining support
Delegate Wendell Beitzel has submitted a bill that would require the development of general performance standards for commercial wind turbines across the state.
Last year's solo effort failed to get out of the House Economic Matters Committee. This year, the bill already has 22 co-sponsors, including the influential Montgomery County Democrat.
February 8, 2010
by Kevin Spradlin
in Cumberland Times-News
CUMBERLAND - Delegate Wendell Beitzel has submitted a bill that would require the development of general performance standards for commercial wind turbines across the state.
Last year's solo effort failed to get out of the House Economic Matters Committee. This year, the bill already has 22 co-sponsors, including the influential Montgomery County Democrat Brian Feldman, a member of the Economic Matters Committee, as well as Democrat Barbara Frush, of Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties.
Delegates KevinâKelly and LeRoy Myers also have signed on as co-sponsors.
The bill, introduced Friday, does not attempt to indicate what those performance standards might be. Instead, Beitzel... [continue via Web link]
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