Wind farm raises both concern and hope for Tioga By Kevin Killough Construction on the Lindahl Wind Project isn’t expected to begin until June 2016, but representatives from Tradewind Energy, the company building the wind farm, are in Tioga this month talking to the public about how the project will impact Tioga and the surrounding region. Unlike most wind energy projects, the Lindahl Wind Project was initiated by approximately 20 landowners north of Tioga, who organized to produce a lease, which they then sold to Tradewind. The 14-year-old renewable energy company from Kansas has developed six wind farms and one solar plant that together produce about 1 gigawatt of power. “Our experience is the Midwest wind belt,” said Brice Barton, senior project developer for Tradewind. The Lindahl Wind Project is the company’s first in North Dakota, and it will be the first wind farm in the far northwest corner of the state. Depending on the size of the turbines, approximately 75 of them will be spread out over about 28 square miles north of Tioga. The nature of the design and the location of existing infrastructure will make placement of the towers uneven, but on average there will be about 2 to 3 towers per square mile. At full capacity the farm will produce about 150 megawatts of power, depending on the strength of the wind at any given time. Since the wind doesn’t blow all the time, wind energy can only supplement base load power supplies, which provide constant and reliable energy. “We sell our resource as an intermittent resource,” Barton said. Read more at journaltrib/?id=67&nid=2606
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 23:15:42 +0000
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