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Community Wind Energy in Empire
Tom Karas recently published an article about the Empire Community Wind Energy Project through the Institute Daily from the Michigan Land Use Institute. It's worth a look about this very interesting effort that's under way in Empire. From their web site:
The Community Wind Energy Project seeks to engage the public in the research and development process of wind energy projects that have a net benefit to the community. We are a group of citizens concerned with the future reliability and sustainability of our energy sources. Community wind projects are locally-owned, commercial-scale wind energy developments that optimize local benefits.
It is our vision that Empire becomes 100% powered by a clean, renewable, and local energy: the wind. With the help and resources of the community members we can do this in the most effective and sensitive manner. The Empire area has ample wind resources to power the entire village or township, and we will be investigating how to do this socially, politically, economically, and environmentally with net benefits to all.
I think that community energy is a topic that we'll all be talking about here in Leelanau County and Northern Michigan - congratulations to the folks in Empire for blazing the trail!
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Interesting article. Thanks.
An interesting event you might consider attending is the Community Wind Webconference - May 26, 27. It covers pretty much all the challenges related to these project. 25+ speakers from all over North-America.
http://www.greenenergyconferences.com/wind
Regards,
MAthijs
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Comment by Mathijs Gajentaan — April 11, 2009 @ 11:27 pm
Nice post. Looks like wind power is really starting to get some serious consideration in Australia now.
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Comment by Rebekah Heyes — July 29, 2009 @ 2:16 am
Wind power is great when the wind is blowing. Geothermal would be a better option.
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Comment by Mandy — August 26, 2009 @ 5:27 pm
Wind power is a good source of electricity but it also takes up lots of space just like solar power plants..:"
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Comment by Jennifer Powell — April 30, 2010 @ 9:05 pm