Experiments have been conducted with wind power for decades, but never has such a large wind farm been built to provide commercial power.
The region is a valuable asset for another reason: In July Felsinger inked a deal to provide Southern California Edison with 250 megawatts of wind power for 20 years from a wind farm planned for the Baja town of La Rumorosa.
The company has also announced plans to build two "clean coal" power plants last week just as it announced the completion of a wind farm that will provide power to 24, 000 homes.
Power from the wind farm will go to Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Montana.
Iberdrola said the turbines would allow it to produce 2, 700 megawatts of power from its wind farm developments in Europe and North America.
The second is a minefield because the technical responses make a rich mix, ranging from "it's not a problem because if you have enough wind turbines they compensate for each other" to "you need a fossil fuel power station on standby for every wind farm".
The shake-up also calls for councils to be given the power to halt all wind farm applications for a year and suggests homeowners should be compensated for lost value because of turbines.
Rival wind-power fund PowerShares Global Wind Energy Portfolio focuses more on wind-farm operators.
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And while some national environmental organizations such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club have become staunch wind power advocates in their war against fossils, others who live in proposed wind farm locations have launched strong legal opposition.
ON, the Rampion offshore wind farm could create enough electricity to power up to 450, 000 homes.
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Western Australia's Alinta is the latest big energy distributor to expand its "green" output, announcing Tuesday it will take power from a 90-megawatt wind farm to be built near Geraldton.
National Grid is currently consulting on plans to develop its network to carry electricity from the proposed wind farm and the planned new nuclear power station at Wylfa on Anglesey.
It will allow us to more effectively transport renewable energy generated in remote places to large population centers, so that a wind farm in rural South Dakota can power homes in Chicago.
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Any wind farm larger than 50 megawatt of power, and any large scale energy development such as the proposed grid connection in mid Wales comes under the authority of the Department of Energy and Climate Change in London.
The wind farm in the Irish Sea off Barrow, will power up to 87, 000 homes.
According to representatives from energy company Scottish Power, local planning authorities have been unable to progress wind farm planning applications in a reasonable timescale.
Energy from the wind farm will enter the national grid in Cumbria, creating enough to power about 180, 000 homes.
The owner of a wind farm would be paid when wind speeds were low and not much power is produced, and would pay money out when winds were unseasonably strong.
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In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange Tuesday, Alinta said it had signed a power purchase agreement with Renewable Power Ventures (RPV) that would enable RPV to build the wind farm.
American Electric Power (AEP) chose to delay its plans to build a wind farm in Indiana when the heavily indebted utility found its cost of capital had soared because of turmoil in the corporate-bond market.
Not to be outdone, England just flipped the switch on the world's largest wind farm, and in Paris, Schneider Electric set up kinetic energy-harvesting tiles that generate power from runners in the Paris Marathon.
This week EDF Renewable Energy officially unveiled the 140-megawatt Pacific Wind farm in the Tehachapi-Mojave region of Southern California and the nearby 143-megawatt Catalina solar power station.
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