Offshore wind projects may transform not only Cleveland, but the whole nation. Local wind turbine initiatives are all over the news. Next American City profiled Cleveland and Chicago in its story “The Wind at Their Backs: Two cities use local momentum to build America’s first offshore wind farms.” Read the article here: http://AmericanCity.org/magazine/article/the-wind-at-their-backs.
Then check out the new interactive map from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources highlighting opportunities for wind turbines on the lake. The map is layered to show a variety of info, like lake depth, fish habitat, lakebed sediment and limiting factor weight values. Check it out here.
And, in case you forgot to look up while on the Case campus, here’s info on their new 156-foot tall wind turbine. Case Western Reserve Univ. plans to build three more. Onward & upward.
Links via the County Planning Commission’s blog.