Portland Wind Power Company Takes Project in North Carolina

Portland, OR based company, Iberdrola Renewables, may be installing North Carolina's first commercial wind farm to the counties of Pasquotank and Perquimans. If the project is approved the farm will occupy nearly 20,000 acres and could provide power to 55,000 to 70,000 North Carolina residents. If this contract goes through, the project will begin by the end of 2011 and will create over 400 jobs.

Wind turbines are useful because they convert kinetic energy into power that can be used for tasks that require electricity. Although the project is very expensive, very little agricultural areas will be effected, nor will the industry of North Carolina. The estimated cost is $600 million

According to the Department of Energy's May 2008 report, the U.s is capable of producing more than 20 percent of the the nations electricity from wind power without any major technical innovation. During President Obama's State of the Union Address, he guaranteed that 80 percent of the U.S. electricity would come from "clean energy sources" by 2035.

Wind power sounds like a very effective way to recycle energy, and create more jobs in the process. I really do believe that this is the wave of the future. When I worked for a sub-contractor for Portland General Electric, there was a lot of talk about wind farms, being built, and wind turbine technician employment. Is there any problems with wind power, besides the expense of constructing the farms? Why did we not think of this earlier? The way technology has changed within the past 20 years, it seems like wind power would have developed long before now.

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