[CPEO-BIF] Lackawanna (NY) Wind farmm on former brownfield site

["Robert Hersh" <b_hersh@verizon.net>]

Urban wind farm helps revitalize the rust belt

by Drew Robb 
EngineerLive.com

Wind farms are normally associated with mountainous areas and remote
regions. But how about one planted in a city on the site of an old steel
mill? Drew Robb reports.

Steel Winds Wind Farm takes up a 30-acre portion of the old Bethlehem Steel
mill, located along the shores of Lake Erie in Lackawanna, NY, USA.

Steel Winds marks many firsts. It is the first urban wind farm in the
country, the first to go up on a former industrial site, the first wind farm
on the American great lakes and the first commercial deployment of Clipper
Windpower's 2.5 MW Liberty series wind turbines. Eight of these turbines (a
total of 20 MW) are now feeding electricity to the grid, enough for over
6000 homes.

"Where Bethlehem Steel once supported an earlier industrial revolution,
today the Steel Winds project is bringing new jobs and clean energy
technology to the Lake Erie region," says Paul Gaynor, President and CEO of
UPC Wind, co-developer of the project. "We are pleased to be operating at
full capacity and introducing this newest generation of wind turbines to the
market."

For the entire article, see:

http://www.engineerlive.com/features/19195/urban-wind-farm-helps-revitalise-
the-rust-belt.thtml

Bob Hersh
CPEO

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