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Virginia One of Just 13 States with Zero Installed Wind Power

by: TheGreenMiles

Thu Jan 29, 2009 at 08:42:36 AM EST


As Faithfull covered earlier, wind power has surged past coal power as a jobs creator. Here's a related map that shows Virginia is getting shut out of the new energy economy. Despite utility-scale potential in several parts of the commonwealth, we've left that wind power untapped to focus instead on blowing up mountains to get at the dirty coal underneath:

Existing Wind Power

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Especially paired with Lowell's above.

And one of the great things about the Appalachian region is that the higher resolution mapping you use, the greater the wind potential you can see.

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a) Low Resolution

and b) High Resolution


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Zero installed commercial/utility scale wind power. There are a (very) few home-owner/small business wind systems around the Commonwealth.

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Land based, grid-scale wind installations in Virginia would come at a huge cost with little or no environmental benefit, while inflicting catastrophic damage to our mountains. Ridge lines have the wind, but they would be blasted to smithereens to build the wide roads required to bring in 110' blades, nacelle and stanchion sections, and to lay multi-acre sites with deep concrete pads. Hundreds of miles of ridge lines would be required to supply a relatively small amount of unreliable electricity, and only when the wind blows. Even if one thousand 400'+ wind monsters scarred our mountains, it is highly likely that NOT ONE fossil fuel plant will be closed, or would gear down one scintilla. If the wind farm  should economically fail, which they will do without public subsidy, the operators will evaporate, leaving a string of junk monuments, so we will have a reminder of this folly to look at for many years to come. Please, learn all the facts before thinking that wind farms are any kind of panacea. What they would be, however, is an unmitigated environmental tragedy.  

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