A final review could come Monday for Tippecanoe County's rules governing wind energy systems that are expected to sprout here in the next few years.

Proposed changes to the county ordinance have sat on the back burner since early December, when some residents raised concern about raising noise limits for the systems.

The commissioners approved an ordinance in August that set the wind turbine noise limit at 45 decibels. But afterward, some representatives of wind energy companies sought to raise it to 50 decibels.

That's still where the limit is set in the revised ordinance that commissioners will discuss Monday. But there's a... [continue via Web link]