Where is the new wind farm?

The wind farm’s developers plan to install 62 giant turbines in the Atlantic Ocean about 15 miles off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, with enough capacity to power 400,000 homes with clean energy.

How many wind turbines are in my area?

They found a rough average of 4 megawatts per square kilometer (about 10 megawatts per square mile). So a 2-megawatt wind turbine would require a total area of about half a square kilometer (about two-tenths of a square mile).

Where are onshore wind farms located?

Many of the largest operational onshore wind farms are located in China, India, and the United States. For example, the largest wind farm in the world, Gansu Wind Farm in China had a capacity of over 6,000 MW by 2012, with a goal of 20,000 MW by 2020.

Where are wind turbines in NH?

As of 2020, five wind power projects are operating in the state of New Hampshire – Lempster Mountain, which opened in 2008, Granite Reliable Wind Farm, which opened in late 2011, Groton Wind, which opened in 2012, Jericho Mountain, which opened in 2015, and Antrim Wind, which opened in 2020.

Where is the biggest wind farm in the United States?

Alta Wind Energy Center
The Alta Wind Energy Center in California is the largest wind farm in the United States with a capacity of 1,548 MW. GE Power is the largest domestic wind turbine manufacturer.

How close do you have to be to a wind turbine to hear it?

So just how noisy are these turbines? The closest that a wind turbine is typically placed to a home is 300 meters or more. At that distance, a turbine will have a sound pressure level of 43 decibels.

What percentage of New Hampshire’s electricity comes from wind?

3%
In 2020, wind energy accounted for about 3% of New Hampshire’s utility-scale in-state electricity generation. The state’s first modern wind farm came online in 2008. As of May 2021, New Hampshire has 5 wind farms with a combined 212 megawatts of capacity.