Just southeast of Pittsburgh, we saw something that clearly foreshadows America's clean energy future: the Somerset Wind Energy Center. A six-turbine, 9-megawatt wind farm located in Somerset, Pennsylvania.
They're huge! The steel beams at the base stretch 215 feet into the sky and the blades themselves span 230 feet in diameter.
The six 1.5-megawatt turbines produce enough electricity to supply about 3,400 homes annually, about 25,000 megawatt-hours of power.
Somerset Wind Energy Center came online in October 2001 to meet the demand for clean, green electricity from leading corporations, universities, and individuals in the region expressing a preference for pure, fuel-free electricity.
Wind farms like these help meet the challenge of combating global climate change and are good for jobs, good for the economy, good for national security, good for the consumer and good for our planet.
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