Norway Firm Plans World's Biggest Wind Park

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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35223/story.htm

OSLO - A Norwegian firm has applied for a concession for the world's biggest wind power development off western Norway with total capacity of 1,500 megawatts produced by hundreds of turbines, it said on Monday.

The world's biggest wind power parks are now off Denmark, the leading wind energy nation, which has two parks with capacity of around 160 MW each. Big wind projects are also on the drawing board elsewhere, such as off Britain.

"So far as we know this is the biggest," said Harald Dirdal, managing director of Havgul AS, the company behind the plan.

Privately owned Havgul estimated total investments to carry out the development at 16 billion Norwegian crowns ($2.37 billion), and said it expected big industrial groups to take over the project from the construction phase.

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[Double T]

1. Other countries are years or decades ahead of us..........

in implementing renewable energy sources. How have we let our country fail so miserably.

[ladjf]

2. America has an ignorant voting constituency and a greedy

ruling class. That's a bad combination.