Washington County: LURC begins review of wind farm application (Maine)

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http://bangordailynews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=149288&zoneid=500

A proposal to build a 38-turbine wind farm in rural Washington County passed its first administrative hurdle recently when state regulators officially accepted the application for review.

The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission recently deemed as "complete for processing" Evergreen Wind Power LLC’s application to build a wind farm along Stetson Mountain in northern Washington County.

Later this week, LURC staff will ask the agency’s board to authorize a public hearing on the project, which, as proposed, would generate an estimated 150 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually. That is enough electricity to power roughly 27,500 homes.

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If constructed today, the project would become New England’s largest wind farm, although LURC also has received an application for a 44-turbine farm in northern Franklin County. Evergreen Wind Power is a subsidiary of UPC Wind and currently operates a turbine farm in Mars Hill.

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