Jan. 6, 2008: Big Month for Wind EnergyMedia Clip
Posted January 6th, 2008 by ElenaVelkov
Construction workers are finishing the Langdon Wind Energy Center, and public wind energy use is quickly increasing. Grand Forks Herald NEKOMA, N.D. - Without a flicker of interruption, some 280,000 people in northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota will join the wind energy generation this month. Crews are finishing construction and conducting final testing at the Langdon Wind Energy Center. The 106-turbine, 159-megawatt wind farm is expected to be fully operational within a week or two, according to Scott Scovill, project manager for FPL Energy, the Florida-based company that is building the facility. “We're getting very close,” he said. The heart of the wind farm is located just outside of Nekoma, N.D., in the shadow of pyramid-like Stanley R. Mickelson Safeguard Complex, an anti-ballistic missile site that was built and abandoned in the 1970s. Nekoma is about 13 miles south of Langdon. |
