Colorado State University gives up its wind farm project
JAN 12, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024968
Chronicle of Higher Education : Citing technical and financial challenges, Colorado State University in Fort Collins has abandoned its project to build what would have been the largest university wind farm in the US. The project’s 75 turbines would have generated electricity at a rate of 150 megawatts. As the Chronicle‘s Scott Carlson reports, some of the factors that doomed the project would face most wind farms: upgrading transmission lines, making sure the towers satisfy the Federal Aviation Authority’s height restrictions, and securing the necessary loans to finance the project.
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