For further details of wind power in Franklin/Pendleton County, visit the website of Friends of Beautiful Pendleton County: http://www.hushhushrushrush.com
The following weblink of US Wind Force's Liberty Gap, accessed on 11/22/04, projects the building of 112 huge turbines (1.8 MW), not just the 50 that their brochure and PSC application claims for Pendleton County, WV:
http://www.pjm.com/planning/project-queues/impact_studies/j07_imp.pdf.
This weblink accesses the 11/22/2004 revision of US WindForce's "PJM Generator Interconnection Request."
Here's the direct quote from US WindForce's request to PJM for hook-up to the grid at Franklin:
"The developer, Liberty Gap Wind Force, LLC, wishes to interconnect 112-1.8 MW wind turbine generators for a maximum total generating capability of 200 MW at their Liberty Gap site in Pendleton County, West Virginia."
If US WindForce is able to build the transmission upgrade to allow 200 MW of power connection at Franklin, then it will greatly facilitate their expansion into Highland County. If the Highland County BOS grant permission to McBride to construct a wind facility, the precedent will be set to allow the development of Jack Mountain by US Wind Force.
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US Wind Force depiction of their Liberty Gap (Jack Mountain) project in Pendleton County, WV. Can you imagine?! Read the story at http://www.uswindforce.com/default.asp?pg=projects&pg2=5