Wind farm planned for western South Dakota

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Excerpt: A 50-MW wind farm is planned for western South Dakota. Minnesota-based Renewable Solutions will begin construction once a power purchaser is found. However, the company has already signed leases for 27 turbines with the landowners. The project is projected to cost $100 million and span over 9,000 …

Iowa sees 41-MW wind farm

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Excerpt: A 41-MW wind farm is planned for Delaware County in Iowa. RMP Access will develop the project, which will consist of  17 Nordex N100 turbines. The Elk Wind Farm strengthens a growing local workforce in Arkansas that has reached over 70 new hires already, with the potential of increasing to 700 …

The pitfalls of building-integrated wind power

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Excerpt: What are the pitfalls and problems with building integrated wind power? Why is it that throwing a turbine on the top of a 50 M building doesn't produce the output that the manufacturers state? Well, according to a recent article from Windpower Engineering Analyzing Building-Integrated Wind Power the …

Determining Setback Distances and Height for Small Wind Turbines

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Excerpt: To balance against the need for tall towers, good practice requires that a small wind turbine in a residential district be "set back" from a property line some given distance. (For commercial or other zones, this distance is often considerably less, even zero, since in these areas affected parties s …