Yep, another “world’s largest.” While beginning to sound eye-rolling, it’s actually pretty cool that everyone keeps one-upping each other, because that means we’re making real progress. Anyway, back to world’s largest…
The plan is for 303 turbines to go up, generating 909 MW – a capacity that more than doubles Oregon state’s wind capacity, beats out the US’s so-far-largest wind farm in Texas, the 765 MW Horse Hollow wind farm, and makes it potentially the largest single wind farm in the world. In terms of wind farms in general, we’ll likely be hearing more “world’s largest” coming from China soon.
While the permits are out, there are no dates floating around so far for when it will be up and running.
Via Portland Business Journal, Treehugger; Photo via vax-o-matic
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written by NS, July 31, 2008
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written by al, July 31, 2008
What about the status of more efficent wind projects like Laddermill and Kitegen.
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written by Hank, July 31, 2008
First, there isn't a lot of production capacity, I'm not intimately familiar with their production, but it's possible that they're actually only being built in Europe right now.
Second, even if they are being produced in America, it's very difficult to ship the blades for the 5 MW turbines...getting them across the country (especially over any mountain passes) would be an extremely complicated (not to mention carbon-intensive) activity.
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written by Tim, August 01, 2008
On a more serious note, I am surprised that Oregon, with its strong commitment to renewables, has not invested more in developing its offshore wind potential.
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written by Virtual Bird's Eye, August 05, 2008
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Or
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