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Anyone have an update as to how many windmills will be installed in this phase and how many are planned in total? Excited to see them go up!

they're huge! the threat isn't to waterfowl, but small airplanes...

I saw the convoy on Main Street in Snyder yesterday, an amazing site. I flew to NYC a few week ago and all of Wyoming County and Central New York are full of windmills.

They have been moving these all summer up and down abbott road to the southern tier and Wyoming County. My guess is they were avoiding construction on Rt. 5.

I guess he should have made a left in Albuquerque!!! :)

It would seem logical that harnessing wind power SHOULD lower our electric rates. However, you have to remember that electricity, oil & gas are commodities, traded on a market, with prices set by speculators that look at current supply & future probable supply and demand pressures. Electricity has more of a true current price, for sure, but essentially what the windmills do is lessen the rate of increase in our future electric costs by feeding lower-cost energy into the grid. As we add more generating capacity with windmills, we minimize the need for other generating sources that are more expensive, or higher risk (nuclear, coal), and we do less damage to the environment (excl birds and small planes... both which I am sympathetic to). ultimately whatever we ca do to feed a gerater percentage of power into our grind from renewable vs. non-renewable sources, the better the environment will be, and the more "energy independent" we'll be.

Wingking- Whats in it for us?? how about just a cleaner environnment, an unlimited amount of renewable energy, more jobs for WNY and the U.S. in general.......and most importantly taking some kind of dent out of our dependancy on foreign oil and keep the money out of those scumbag muslims overseas that are laughing at our asses.

Bringing down my utility bill is the last thing on my mind considering the bigger picture.

Is the Elmwood Village becoming a gated community perhaps? :)

yeah the lower amounts of mercury, co2, no2 and other nasties that coal plants spew is exactly what all of us are getting. I also could care less about my electric bill. A little conservation can go a long way.

I like magnum's idea......and maybe add a fountain at the top.

^Blades of Buffalo

what do we get out of it? how about we are leading the way and a Euro company decides to build a manufactoring plant here for all the wind mills America will want. we just need some one to recruit them