From Deseret News archives:
Wyoming's new day: wind power
Utah planning to promote similar electricity source
In two weeks, blades longer than airplane wings will sweep 365 feet into the air, generating enough electricity for roughly 45,000 homes.
Call it Wyoming's new day.
The $143 million wind park by Florida Power and Light Energy LLC covers a 45-square-mile area. The land is leased from the state of Wyoming, Bureau of Land Management and private property owners.
"All of the pre-existing uses are still able to be performed, whether it be grazing, farming operations," said Don Miller, FPL Energy project manager. "There is virtually little or no impact to those operations."
In less than four months, FPL Energy has erected 76 of the total 80 wind turbines, constructed 45 miles of new roads and completed 25 miles of trenching where 900,000 feet of underground cable has been laid to relay electricity to an on-site substation before it is picked up by the main power grid.
PPM Energy, which is owned by ScottishPower, will purchase the entire output of the generation, which will find its way to customers in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado.
Here, wind is in ample supply, averaging above 16 mph, according to Miller.
On Thursday, a group of Utah legislators, private-property owners and business executives toured the area to see firsthand the West's growing trend in producing electricity.
"This is obviously an amazing facility," said Rep. Bradley Last, R-St. George. "I think these kinds of things are something we as a society ought to pursue, and we as a government ought to do what we can to help promote it."
Utah, which at present has no wind farms, seems to have gotten the message.
Just this week the Utah Energy Policy Task Force recommended forwarding draft legislation for a sales and use tax exemption on renewable energy to the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee.
Sen. Leonard Blackham, R-Moroni and chairman of the task force, said the Utah bill is similar to the Wyoming legislation.
"It covers more than just wind," Blackham said. "It covers other renewables as well."
Lorin Moench, who owns a 45,000-acre ranch in Utah's Summit County, said he is glad Utah is pursuing the renewable energy bill.
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