AP: The southern U.S. will have its first wind farm facility soon

This news is from Jason Dearen at the Associated Press:

     On a vast tract of old North Carolina farmland, crews are getting ready to build something the South has never seen: a commercial-scale wind energy farm.
     The $600 million project by Spanish developer Iberdrola Renewables LLC will put 102 turbines on 22,000 acres near the coastal community of Elizabeth City, with plans to add about 50 more. Once up and running, it could generate about 204 megawatts, or enough electricity to power about 60,000 homes.
     It would be the first large onshore wind farm in a region with light, fluctuating winds that has long been a dead zone for wind power.

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     Right now, there's not a spark of electricity generated from wind in nine states across the Southeast from Arkansas to Florida, according to data from the American Wind Energy Association, an industry trade group. [emphasis added]