The nation’s first real wind farm – multiple power-producing wind turbines feeding into the grid – was built in New Hampshire, on Crotched Mountain in Francestown in 1980. It was a research project from UMass-Amherst; I have written about it before – read the details here.
Why do I mention this? Because the U.S. Department of Energy just released an online timeline about the history of wind power in the U.S. and we’re not mentioned! Outrage!!!!
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Over the past 5 yrs or so there was an article in the Monitor about anew creative design for a wind turbine propeller design that was vertical and turned with less
wind required. If I recall it was someone in the Concord area of towns, but never heard any more about it. Do you have any info about it?
Sorry, that doesn’t ring a bell – but if you mean a vertical-axis wind turbine, there have been scads of vertical-axis designs over the years and all of them are flops.
It’s an inherently inefficient design, unfortunately: https://granitegeek.concordmonitor.com/2016/06/15/vertical-axis-windmills-looks-really-cool-bad-stink-producing-power/
The whole reason for building this wind farm was to prove that multiple machines connected to the grid would not cause instability. Once the proof of concept was accepted and the machines worked, they were all removed and taken to the Altamont Pass in California. There, several windfarms with much larger machines providing power into the very large Tesla sub-station that provided power to most of Northern California. As a test, it was successful but Crotched Mountain isn’t really a good wind site. We did a lot of wind surveys in New Hampshire, mostly for people wanting to be independent of the power grid. Surprising how few sites qualified. People remember when the winds blows but don’t remember all the quiet times. A 12 MPH annual average is a LOT of wind. Needed for any kind of economic return on investment.