Our local town, with which I'm not involved, recently contracted to have one put up to augment electrical power for the town. The unit will be placed in the county, with which I am involved.
At a hearing before the board of Commissioners, the first question I asked of a rep of the wind generator company was what happens to the unit if the company that owns it goes out of business. I asked because there is a humongous concrete base below ground to support the tower. I asked this because I had heard of reports of people being left to their own devices to get rid of a wind generator when a company went kaput. The answer I received was that it's in the contract that if the business fails they remove the top four feet of the concrete base and fill it with top soil.
Say what? There is an impenetrable chunk of concrete left below ground. Might be interesting if that occurred and someone needed to excavate some time in the future.
When the subject first came up several months ago, I emailed copies of the appropriate zoning regulations to our County Attorney and asked her if they needed to be updated. The regs called for a noise level of no more than 50 db's. I specifically wanted to have the noise level reduced to 40 db's during the day and 35 at night, 'cause I'd read about a "whooshing" sound the units make as the blades turn. My efforts went nowhere, and when it came to a vote of us Commissioners, the zoning regs in place left us no choice but to approve it. To deny a project like that, we need to have legal grounds, we can't just deny something because we don't like it.
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