14-Year-Old Casper Wind Farm Has Not Turned A Blade In At Least 3 Years

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-22 19:15:24 | Updated at 2024-11-23 05:27:39 10 hours ago

14-Year-Old Casper Wind Farm Has Not Turned A Blade In At Least 3 Years
Cowboy State Daily ^ | 11/20/24 | By Robert Schmad

Posted on 11/22/2024 10:51:45 AM PST by CFW

Casper — For the past 14 years they have loomed over the landscape of northeastern Casper, once the symbol of the county’s first step into green energy. Now some say they are just an eyesore.

The blades of the 11 240-feet high, 450,000-pound turbines haven’t caught the wind for a few years.

Casper resident Terry Wingerter said he was one of the Natrona County commissioners who approved the initial project in 2009. He wishes now he would have voted differently on the wind farm.

“They were the first towers in this area, and we had several neighborhood meetings out there,” he said. “Some of the neighbors were terribly against it and some of the others just didn’t care. It was the first one in this area so we voted for them.”

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Chevron’s President Greg Vesey in 2009 called the project “an excellent opportunity and location for the company’s first wholly owned wind facility, but the Casper Wind Farm also brings the former refinery site back into energy production with renewable energy.”

Wingerter said the initial pitch to the community was that the wind farm would send its electricity to the Dave Johnston Power Plant between Glenrock and Douglas.

“Now they haven’t been used for I don’t know how long, I am guessing three years,” he said. “Now it’s an eyesore, if you ask me.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: power; renewables; waste; windfarm

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There is a sucker born every minute.

If wind and solar power were actually more efficient and less costly than fossil fuels, then there would not be any need for subsidies and more people would be switching to those sources for power. They are not. And those such as these counties in Wyoming are finding that promises were made but the promised product was not delivered. Not exactly a great reference for the wind power supporters to put on their resume.

1 posted on 11/22/2024 10:51:45 AM PST by CFW

To: CFW

2 posted on 11/22/2024 10:53:31 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)

To: CFW

kinda like the ones outside Palm Springs-very few of them turn, pretty much for tax writeoffs.

3 posted on 11/22/2024 10:54:18 AM PST by kaktuskid

To: CFW

Wind and solar are horrible ideas for powering the grid -- which is supposed to be dependable power for entire cities and communities.

I'm all for decentralized solar and wind: getting it for your own home if you want to from a free market perspective. But even then there should be no tax credits or subsidies (again, free market is better than the government intruding into it).

4 posted on 11/22/2024 10:56:11 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)

To: Opinionated Blowhard

I read Lynn Cheneys book. Casper is very windy.
Somebody made good money on that.

Btw-I feel sand for Linda. She’s kept quiet while her husband and daughter make asses of themselves. If I had to be in that family I’d choose to be the lesbian.

5 posted on 11/22/2024 10:56:20 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

To: CFW

very little real information in the article?

6 posted on 11/22/2024 10:58:04 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are not longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)

To: CFW

The era of “green energy” is DEAD

it was created and born of many trends which have already reversed, or are going to soon collapse/reverse

- Massive growth of Govt debt
- Cheap money and zero interest rates
- blind public acceptance of “climate change” narrative
- US hegemony in trade and control of key mineral resources

7 posted on 11/22/2024 11:00:16 AM PST by PGR88

To: CFW

Government plans never make any mistakes. /sarc

8 posted on 11/22/2024 11:03:07 AM PST by Wuli

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