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The Brush wind turbine had a rotor 56 feet (17 m) in diameter and was mounted on a 60-foot (18 m) tower, making it similar in size to some of the first commercial wind farm turbines of the 1980s. However, the machine was only rated at 12 kW; it turned relatively slowly since it had 144 blades.
Turbines Owner Notes and links AMP Wind Farm: Wood County: 7.2 American Municipal Power [16] Blue Creek Wind Farm: Paulding and Van Wert Counties 304 160 Iberdrola Renewables Operational. [17] Timber Road Wind Farm: Paulding County: 362.7 158 EDP Renewables Operational. [17] Hog Creek Hardin County: 66 30 Operational. [17] Northwest Ohio ...
The Blue Creek Wind Farm spanning Paulding and Van Wert County became the largest wind farm in the U.S. state of Ohio at approximately 40,500 acres upon its completion in 2012. With a generating capacity of 304 megawatts (MW), it produces enough electricity to service the equivalent of about 76,000 homes.
Listed are wind farms with a generating capacity of at least 150 megawatts (MW) or any of the three largest farms in its state with a generating capacity of at least 120 MW. Part of the Biglow Canyon Wind Farm, with a turbine under construction Fenton Wind Farm at sunrise Shiloh Wind Power Plant. The surrounding land is used for sheep grazing ...
Wind turbine at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland. In June 2010, General Electric, in cooperation with the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation, announced the first freshwater-offshore wind turbine initiative in North America, a $100 million pilot project. [126] [127] The project will also include California-based Bechtel. [128]
The Ohio Supreme Court has signed off a wind farm in northern Ohio that could provide renewable energy for central Ohio projects.
Using wind for energy [1] is an idea first brought about by James Blyth, who is believed to have made the first wind turbine in Scotland in 1887. In the United States Charles Bush developed the first wind turbine in Ohio a year later. [3] Global Annual 50m Average Wind Speed wind atlas
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