(2005-01-23) Ny Wind Power

Article about Wind Power projects in New York State. This June, the board of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) voted unanimously to move ahead with an offshore wind farm south of Jones Beach and Robert Moses State Park. The proposal involves building a cluster of 30 to 50 windmills within five square nautical miles in the Atlantic that straddles the coasts of Nassau and Suffolk counties. Operational, the wind farm will provide enough electricity to power 42,000 Long Island homes (and a few on Queens' Rockaway Peninsula). Environmental groups estimate that the reduction in Carbon Emissions will be the equivalent of 500 million car miles driven each year.