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In 2016, North Carolina's first large scale wind project, and the first in the southeastern U.S., was completed near Elizabeth City. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2019, North Carolina had an installed wind capacity of 208 MW.
The Desert Wind Farm, also known as Amazon Wind Farm US East, spans Perquimans and Pasquotank County on the Atlantic coastal plain in northeast North Carolina.With a total generating capacity of 208 megawatts (MW), it became the first large wind farm in the southeast United States when it came online at the end of 2016.
The following table lists offshore wind farm areas (by nameplate capacity) that are in various states development for the Outer Continental Shelf in U.S. territorial waters of the East Coast of the United States, [31] where a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) wind energy area lease has been secured [32] [33] and have gained at least some ...
Denmark built the world’s first offshore wind farm in 1991. Three sites have been leased for offshore wind off the North Carolina coast. Seeking more offshore wind knowledge, NC signs agreement ...
There are currently three areas leased for offshore wind farms along the N.C. coast, including two about 20 miles south of Brunswick County.
Badger Wind Farm North Dakota: 250 [109] 25 Mile Creek Wind Oklahoma: 250 [110] Blackjack Creek Wind Farm Texas: 240 [111] Great Pathfinder wind farm Iowa: 224 [112] Ledyard Wind Farm Iowa: 207 [113] Chowan County Wind Farm (2023) North Carolina: 188 [114] Delta Wind Farm (2023) Mississippi: 184 [115] Walleye Wind Farm Minnesota: 110 [116]
Further complicating matters, a non-regulated subsidiary of Duke called Cinergy Corp. holds the offshore wind lease to a 55,154-acre area off Brunswick County that the company has said could power ...
The NASA/GE MOD-1 wind turbine in Boone, North Carolina was the world's first turbine to produce 2 MW. NASA contracted with General Electric in 1978 to scale up from the MOD-0A with a 10-fold increase in power. The Mod-1 was the first wind turbine in the world to produce 2 megawatts and also General Electric's first wind turbine.