Talk:Wind power in Vermont

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Issues to resolve[edit]

I see a few problems with this article.

The opening sentence refers to 46 MW of installed capacity, and is sourced by this article. However, that is a suppliers page, so ought to be used with caution, and supported by other places. It doesn't say that there are 46 MW installed. It says there are 6 installed, and 40 under construction. That sums to 46, which is acceptable math if the Sheffield site is now operational. The source is from 2008, so it is certainly possible that it is now operational, but that source does not support the claim. A better source is this which does refer to 46 MW.

The article goes on to state that Sheffield is operational, but the reference is this, which is not found.

The lede states that "The first megawatt turbine in the world was installed at Grandpa's Knob, in Vermont, in 1941". The source support the date and the size, but I was unable to see a claim that it was the first of that size.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 00:32, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, there is 119 MW capacity installed and generally operating (the blades of one of the eleven 550-kW Zond turbines in the 1996 Searsburg project was destroyed by lightning in 2006 and was not repaired, I think, and another of those turbines collapsed in a hurricane in 2008 – The US Geological Service [1] lists its capacity as 0.55 MW rather than 6 MW). [2] [3]

The Searsburg expansion (which would be the first in a National Forest and is currently being held up by a lawsuit) would add another 30 MW. Kerberos (talk) 19:31, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Remove dead proposals[edit]

There are no wind farms in the pipeline in Vermont as of last year, so I have removed all the "proposed" farms from the table and the chart. This article was pretty outdated. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]