Promoters offer briefing on the power in wind (Maine)

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http://www.sunjournal.com/story/238772-3/RiverValley/Promoters_offer_briefing_on_the_power_in_wind/

ROXBURY - Two meteorological studies under way on area peaks could yield an affordable, pollution-free option for producing some of New England's electricity.

Brunswick-based Independence Wind LLC, a Maine company formed to create large-scale wind projects in Maine and elsewhere in New England, partnered this summer with area landowner Bayroot LLC and its land manager, Wagner Forest Management of Lyme, N.H.

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Record Hill Wind's project calls for 23 to 29 towers along five miles of ridge in a straight line from Partridge Peak in Roxbury north to Old Turk Mountain in Byron, at elevations of between 2,000 and 2,500 feet. Each turbine tower will be 250-feet high with three blades that are each nearly 150 feet long.

King said Wednesday night Record hopes to file a permit application with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection by July. They could get a decision from the state by March 2009, start construction that year, and begin creating electricity in 2010.

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edit: this would bring Maine wind farms under development up to 775 MW ...