ATLANTA — Georgia has been on the sidelines during America’s early attempts to harness the wind as a renewable energy source. But utility officials and researchers say experimental projects under way at opposite ends of the state soon could make Georgia a player in what is becoming an increasingly urgent effort to make the U.S. less dependent on foreign oil.
In northwestern Georgia, an alliance of the state’s electric cooperatives has erected a tower atop Rocky Mountain, near Rome, to measure wind speeds and directions over the course of a year to determine whether the site is suitable for producing... [continue via Web link]