As a major wind energy supplier pulls plans to build off the coast of New Jersey, turbines spin on at Pennsylvania's wind farms.
Dombek, a meteorologist in the State College area, and his family own a combined 550 acres in rural Wyoming County. When the state’s largest wind farm was proposed there over a decade ago, planners with BP Energy sought to erect four of the 88 turbines on his property. The family signed a contract and now receive “tens of thousands” of dollars per year because of it, Dombek said, helping to pay property taxes and maintenance fees.
“We have no issues with it whatsoever. I’ve never heard a complaint about it,” said county commissioner Ernie King. “I have a friend who drinks his coffee outside every morning just to look at them.”wind farms were going to be built far off the coast, in the Atlantic Ocean, and would have generated power for 1 million homes. The project, backed byGov. Phil Murphy, faced blowback from elected officials, Shore residents, second-home owners, and fishermen for years.
Jackson said the group has helped protect forested ridges in 23 townships “under threat of wind development.”