{"id":960,"date":"2009-08-10T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/08\/10\/a-test-for-residential-wind-power-in-the-adirondacks\/"},"modified":"2009-08-10T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T13:37:00","slug":"a-test-for-residential-wind-power-in-the-adirondacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/08\/10\/a-test-for-residential-wind-power-in-the-adirondacks\/","title":{"rendered":"A test for residential wind power in the Adirondacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adirondack Park Agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.state.ny.us\/Mailing\/0908\/FullAgency\/august%202009.pdf\">meets on Thursday<\/a> in Ray Brook. Topping the agenda are two wind power projects proposed for the towns of Essex and Indian Lake.<\/p>\n<p>These aren&#8217;t wind farms; they&#8217;re small residential turbines. This from the APA release:<\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\">Both applicants propose the installation of wind-powered turbines to generate electricity for their existing single family dwellings. <br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\">The proposed tower in <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\">Essex<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\"> is 65-feet tall with nine foot diameter turbine blades for a maximum overall height of 70 feet.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\">The proposed tower in <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\">Indian<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\">Lake<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\"> is 105-feet tall with 18 foot diameter turbine blades for a maximum overall height of 115 feet.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%\">Key issues include visibility and compliance with the Agency\u2019s Tall Structures and Towers Policy.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New'\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Residential wind power is increasingly popular in the North Country. Regulatory wrinkles still make this a pretty challenging choice.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how these projects shape up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adirondack Park Agency meets on Thursday in Ray Brook. Topping the agenda are two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[22,883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}