{"id":1030,"date":"2017-05-24T13:22:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2021-02-02T15:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T20:31:25","slug":"mea-road-trip-to-fourmile-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2017\/05\/24\/mea-road-trip-to-fourmile-wind-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"MEA Road Trip to Fourmile Wind Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kaymie Owen, CMP, Communications Manager<\/p>\n

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The MEA team at Fourmmile Wind Farm<\/p><\/div>\n

Our Maryland Energy Administration team visited Exelon Generation\u2019s Fourmile Wind Energy Project in Garrett County, MD. The farm came online in January of 2015 and has 16 turbines.\u00a0 Exelon <\/a>is America’s 12th largest wind producer, with 47 projects in 10 states and nearly 1,500 megawatts of power. Wind power captures the natural, renewable energy source in our atmosphere and converts it to electricity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Fourmile Wind Energy Project, combined with the other western Maryland wind farm, Backbone,\u00a0generates over 300,000,000 kilowatts of energy annually, enough to supply power to more than 30,000 homes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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MEA Wind & Water Program Manager Sam Beirne was\u00a0proud to visit one\u00a0of the State’s\u00a0largest renewable energy generation sites. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Did you know? A wind turbine has as many as 8,000<\/a> different components.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MEA Director Mary Beth Tung and Program Manager, Sam Beirne, gaze up at one of the turbines. Wind energy historical fact: The first modern wind turbine <\/a>was built in Vermont in 1941.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MEA Program Manager Sam Beirne and MEA Director of Government Affairs, John Fiastro\u00a0look out over the wind\u00a0turbine field.\u00a0\u00a0Fact: The closest that a wind turbine is typically placed to a home is 300 meters (about 1,000 feet). At that distance, a turbine will have a sound pressure level of 43 decibels<\/a>. To put that in context, the average air conditioner can reach 50 decibels of noise, and most refrigerators run at around 40 decibels. <\/span><\/p>\n

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by Kaymie Owen, CMP, Communications Manager Our Maryland Energy Administration team visited Exelon Generation\u2019s Fourmile Wind Energy Project in Garrett County, MD. The farm came online in January of 2015 and has 16 turbines.\u00a0 Exelon is America’s 12th largest wind producer, with 47 projects in 10 states and nearly 1,500  …Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,25,10,26],"tags":[83,192,99,22],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-main","category-news","category-newsletters","tag-clean-energy","tag-land-based-wind","tag-renewable-energy","tag-wind"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}