2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: bobh@np.craigslist.org
Date: 5 Nov 2007 13:57:30 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Wind farms on urban brownfields
 
Urban wind farm helps revitalise 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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