Home Power article on "Site Analysis for Wind Generators"

Home Power has published and agreed to share this informative article, written by Mick Sagrillo, with us. It's a great read to inform ourselves about siting wind turbines.

To view the (two-part) article, please click on the links below:

http://homepower.com/article/?file=HP40_pg86_Sagrillo

http://homepower.com/article/?file=HP41_pg60_Sagrillo

Is small-scale wind power welcome in San Juan County?

Article from Islands Sounder by Meredith Griffith
(http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isj/news/113094144.html)

This isn't your grandfather's long-bladed prairie windmill.

Almost whisper-quiet, the six-foot diameter Energy Ball V200 wind turbine looks like something out of the Howe art gallery: a gleaming silver orb of glass fiber polyester, composed of six blades fused at both ends. John Phillips recently applied for a permit to install an Energy Ball, anticipated to supply 9,000 kilowatt-hours of power annually to his Olga home, but the request was denied – based on a 25-foot height building restriction written into the 2006 Olga Hamlet Plan. The device is normally installed on a 35-foot pole or a rooftop...


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