THE COMPANY behind the Wellow wind farm, which has been five years in the planning, this week promised it could be generating power by 2008 — if its application, submitted this week, gets permission.

A COMMITTEE has been set up to combat the construction of a wind farm.

SOUTH Australia will be home to the nation's largest wind farm, with the $400 million expansion of the Lake Bonney wind farm in the South-East.

Despite winning over a few naysayers, some environmentalists worry that adding more congestion and development to a narrow and already crowded shipping channel could be a recipe for disaster.

OTTAWA, ON, May 31 /CNW Telbec/ - The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) today released a report designed to facilitate the installation of small wind turbines across Canada. The report provides guidance for both consumers and municipalities on "Best Practices" that will ensure the proper installation of turbines under 300 kilowatts (kW) rated capacity in Canadian homes, farms and businesses.

Although no development application has been lodged with Lithgow Council, rumours of plans to build wind turbines in the Tarana Valley has the watchdog Rydal District Landholders Association growling. It is understood that the site being considered is on the northern side of the road between Sodwalls and Tarana.

The Bourne Planning Board wants to know how and why a wind turbine was built at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School with no consultation from the town.

ANOTHER famous celebrity has added his name to a list of people fighting a proposed wind farm. Sir David Bellamy visited Brent Knoll this week to look at the site on which green firm Ecotricity wants to put five 78 metre high wind turbines.

While gearboxes in comparable turbines weigh 50 to 70 tons, the Clipper model weighs 36 tons, including the gearbox, brakes and housing. Low-speed tapered roller bearings take thrust loads on the main shaft. Clipper’s patented variable speed technology, which includes tower damping techniques to eliminate harmful vibrations, results in fewer parts and higher reliability.

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PITTSBURGH - Thousands of people are expected to gather in Pittsburgh next week for the largest-ever annual conference on wind power, an energy resource that has undergone a significant revival in recent years.

PPM Energy, ScottishPower's competitive U.S. energy business, will begin construction this fall on the 75-megawatt (MW) Twin Buttes Wind Power Project in southeastern Colorado. And in Oregon, PPM just announced construction of the 100 MW Leaning Juniper Wind Project near Arlington, which is expected to be commercially operational later this year.

Critics blame politics after agency suspends projects in Midwest

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - Location. Location. Location. The axiom usually cited in valuing real estate could just as easily apply to offshore wind-power farms, it seems.

Windpower wants to build a farm comprising 19 turbines.

A Toronto company wants to erect more than 140 massive wind turbines down the middle of Lake Ontario in what would become the largest wind farm in North America.

BOSTON — A Quincy developer on Tuesday applied for state approval to build a $750 million offshore wind farm with 90 to 120 turbines in Buzzards Bay.

Wind farm owners and other independent power suppliers in the United States are troubled by a ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in late February that let a utility charge a toll for allowing electricity from a wind farm to gain access to the regional grid. The electricity had to travel first over distribution lines belonging to the utility to reach the grid.

TORONTO (CP) - Canada has "probably the best wind resource in the world" but lags behind other developed countries in generating electricity from the air, the head of the wind industry's national organization told a Bay Street crowd Tuesday.

TONY JONES: So in fact you think it's too late for the green solution? The sustainable agriculture combined with large-scale alternative energy, sources like wind farms, hot rocks, wave energy? All of those things combined with solar power, you don't think that will all work?
PROFESSOR JAMES LOVELOCK: I'm afraid it won't. They would have worked with a small population like back in Malthus's time. If civilisation had developed that way we might not be in the mess we are now in. But you can't support 6 billion, growing towards 7 billion people, on that kind of energy source. It just won't work.